When I was still a student at school (about a million years ago now), I read this book called Pnin, which is also the name of the main character. When my grandmother gave it to me, she said, “this is a book about a man with many intricacies and a…

As a transcriptor for the deaf, I should know better. Here I am, at 6pm on a Sunday night, listening to my country music full blast with a headset. And yes, I should know better but this feeling… There’s nothing quite like this feeling of being transported back into an…

Hi Jane, How are you? I don’t know what I’m doing but I needed to write. I was sitting in a cafe, trying to write a song. We’re really behind for the next record and it’s stressing me out. 3 coffees in, and still nothing. And I saw this couple…

Have you ever heard silence? I mean the kind of silence that overwhelms you. A silence, which is almost divine, or sinister. A silence so powerful that you can only share it with people who are willing to listen. When I met him, I was waiting in the line a…

As I listen to “First Time” by Lifehouse, I can’t help but write about what’s on my mind. It definitely is an appropriate song for what I’ve been feeling today. A fortnight ago, I had a dream about my first ex. My first love. My most innocent of relationships but…

Does anyone else feel that the new series “Hollywood” should end with someone waking, realising the whole thing was a dream? I started watching it at the beginning of the week while working on my teaching material. At first, I didn’t mind the usual political correct elements because it was…

Me: Hi Doctor, can we talk? It’s late on a Sunday afternoon and I found myself deep in thought. I need to bouce of someone. Doctor: Of course. Let’s start with what you were doing when you started to feel this way. Well, I was reading a book. I’ve been…

What was life before those pillar people? It’s not that you don’t have memories from before them, but you don’t actually know who you were. My sister said that to me the other day, or words to that effect, referring to a boyfriend she dated when she was 19. Of…

(this is why I don’t sip wine while listening to the playlist on my phone) Can you continue to think of and remember someone who died years ago? Does their own age make a difference? …