This isn’t so much a blog post as it is a wee boast…
With everything else DorkyDad had going on last year, he could have been forgiven for not putting pen to paper even once.
But somehow in among it all he found time and energy to pull together a full-length poetry manuscript and – joy of joys – it was accepted for publication.
Slow Walk Home is now available from Red Squirrel Press – a fabulous Scottish publisher. Continue reading
We are nearing the end of January, well past the midpoint of summer. It has been a subdued one, really. Cool and damp and much quieter than usual. There have been a couple of days when the temperature has tipped into the thirties; on those afternoons we have sat out in the Adirondack chairs, letting the warmth penetrate deep into our bones. But not once have we hit the switch that turns winter’s heat pump into summer’s aircon. Nor have we removed the woollen blanket from our bed, or had a day when we have braved the water at Long Beach. Continue reading
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