and a snowstorm long ago (one from the archives)

Please head over to my fiction site for an updated story from the archives.

first kiss, one summer

short story

one from the archives for the cusp of late summer

The ghost of Bert Cooper (one from the archives for July 4th, 2026)

A nation talking to itself (one from the archives for July 4th, 2026)

Jackie Kennedy, Ray Bradbury, Suburbia, and Me

ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

(one from the archives for new readers/subscribers)

“Members of the gender critical movement are increasingly sharing anti-trans content from members of the far right.

It comes to an end by his upright American mailbox.

On the epistemic road with a poet, storyteller, philosophers, and (yet again) that film

A prelude to 'Doubt and Un/Certainty' (coming soon!)

on his birthday...

For Freud's birthday, one from the archives

one from the archives - with a welcome to new subscribers...xx

A journey from Sunday to Monday

No Child Is a Historian / Every Child Becomes One

We met on a tube train, would you believe. She and I boarded the same Northern Line train at Embankment station, though we had not noticed one another on the platform. It was past ten on a weeknigh…

Meanwhile, over on my Stories site, there is a new piece of short fiction.

(From the back catalogue - with my welcome to new readers and subscribers)

(One from the back catalogue - with my welcome to new subscribers)

2026 Season

Sign the petition for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm?

When you write, you may soon notice that there are at least two of you on the project.

(last year's post - still as true as true can be... xx)

Personal ghosts, time-ghosts (zeitgeist), and a cautionary tale

We met on a tube train, would you believe. She and I boarded the same Northern Line train at Embankment station, though we had not noticed one another on the platform. It was past ten on a weeknigh…

with thanks to David Lynch

Minneapolis, 2026

The sun’s going down for the last time in 2025.

The Stereoscope

Sad stories with automobiles driving through them

In his address to the joint session of Congress, Trump took ownership of one of our enduring, if conflicted tropes when he declared that “the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever befo...

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

Will you support these care workers taking action against Lancashire's Reform Council to fight for residents and keep their homes open?

(a seasonal one from the archives)