For those of you who are interested in and enjoy my writing, I just wanted to flag up the now limited availability of a book of mine going o...

In writing a book, especially for the Evangelical marketplace, some things cannot be said, and this can be awkward. The three dodgy areas ...

The fault of repetition besets all writers. It comes in four forms — the favourite, the oral, the recent and the vivid. All writers have f...

Not everyone who reads here is a writer, but many of you are, so I thought you might be interested in further thoughts about editing your ow...

In case anyone who reads here is involved/interested in professional writing, or just in honing creative writing skills generally, for what ...

It has been such a lovely day. When I blogged about Pearl yesterday, so many friends blessed me, and said they were praying for me; it...

As the saying goes, "you can't turn the clock back". When I think of myself in my teens and twenties, I had such a different...

I am conscious when I look in the mirror or at photographs of myself, that there is a sort of madness in my eyes. It isn't surprising,...

I believe in housework, but I do not enjoy an excess of it. From my teens onward, monastic thought influenced and shaped my life — also bu...

A thing, surely, is as big as it is. It takes up the space it does and that's all there is to it.  In the same way, a person has a cer...