Put brown rice on to cook. Start chopping onions for stir-fry. Sniffle. (Allergies.) Get tissue to blow nose. Ponder existence of friends who don't keep a box of tissues in every room. Decide they must have superpowers undreamt of by mere mortals such as self. Start...
Okay, it’s not easy to imagine Lewis Carroll pitching the Alice books to literary agents, but let’s not let that stop us!
I’ve written about spam before, but the stuff continues to exert a strange fascination over me. My most recent crop – no, you wouldn’t have a crop of spam, would you – my most recent cans of spam contained items that seemed to be struggling to become a novel, taking...
“Your cat may be even smarter than you think” read a rather alarming headline on the Hill's pet food website. Only up to a point, dudes. Stringing me along Luna looked at me indifferently as I dangled a string in front of her. “Come on, girl,” I urged. “Let's play...
In the autumn of 1970, I dropped out of U.C. Berkeley, took a job with an ecology group, and moved into a hippie pad on the corner of Ridge Road and Leroy Street. I should have finished my M.A. in Journalism that spring, but in April, after heated demonstrations over...
Don't look now, but the fields of the British Isles are up to something. It seems that the UK has gained two million people in the past 10 years and lacks sufficient places to put them. Therefore, the Planning Minister has suggested that flats and houses be built on...