A Dead Good Blog

“Navigation? Simple. There’s an app for that.” I have my own ‘app’ in the form of an enlarged, easy to read road atlas. It is far better th...

  Housework, that never-ending project that always starts with good intentions, but there are so many distractions and a complete lack of in...

Like most people I guess I’m a bit of a mixture when it comes to silence. Some might say I have no idea what the word means. I’m rarely quie...

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.”  (From Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, 1927) How refreshi...

I hosted an Easter Music Lyrics Quiz on Facebook last week-end and the title of today's blog was one of several clues that the hive mind...

Silence comes naturally to me. Suffering from hearing problems since birth, silence is a life-long companion. After my hearing was first fix...

I’m responsible for one of those family stories that might get passed down in history, creating mirth amongst future generations. Or, th...

It had been a decade of uncertainty, feeling lost and out of my depth. I’d been riding an emotional roller-coaster that got faster and f...

I wonder if you are a person who likes a challenge? Do you like to test yourself and extend the range of what you can do or achieve? O...

A fine word 'gloaming'. It expresses the hue, light and atmosphere of dusk, twilight, sunset...whatever you wish to call it. Most pe...

Dear Boy Poet, Last night, after you'd returned from work, you dropped your backpack in the middle of my writing space. You pulle...