Writelife

There is a Jim Cuddy song (Pull Me Through) where the lyrics go something like, “There are letters left unopened here, there never is the time; there are messages I should return …”
Well, I can certainly relate to that these days. There are emails I need to reply to and blog posts I should write […]

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Good grief. It’s already April. Where’ve I been?
Well, as the photo on the right suggests, I’ve been feeding squirrels. (Not really, actually. But a friend put the corn out in the backyard to see what the squirrels would do. Being logical creatures, they ate it.)
I’ve been up to several things: work, education, new house and […]

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Apparently Shakespeare’s use of language is good for your head. It gets it all excited and twitchy as it’s forced to do engage in that unusual process of thinking.
In particular, Shakespeare’s use of a linguistic technique known as a functional shift, where a part of speech is employed in an unusual way — a noun […]

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I recently finished reading Ava Gardner: ‘Love is Nothing’ by Lee Server and it’s nothing if not entertaining. Somewhere, he makes mention of her living life “like a rocket.”
It’s an apt description but I think I’d say she lived like she drove cars – fast, carefree and just a little bit out of control (and […]

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I’ve started a number of posts today and didn’t complete any of them. I think I’m dealing with the residual effects of last week.
But I may have embarked on a new project. If I’m ambitious, I’ll weave it in to another little project I’m planning. If I’m not ambitious (and this is the more likely […]

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It’s interesting to me that this blog is called Writelife, implying it is about writing – actually, it purports to be about writing. And yes, it is about writing even if occasionally it concerns it only in a roundabout way.
What I find intriguing is that, though not necessarily obvious, it’s really about reading. But, as […]

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