Tag: fiction

The coat-hangers of time

Without the coat hangers of hours and minutes, we have nothing to fix our lives onto.  We have been on holiday now for 5 days, and the only time hooks we had to think about were 8am for the  opening of the breakfast buffet, and 6pm for the closing time for the pool. And now…

Changing the Rules of the Game

Rules are there to help us. If they are not helping, we should question them and either ignore them, or re-invent them. My two-year old granddaughter wanted grandad to play a card game. She tends to get what she wants. This was an elaborate version of snap, with circular cards, each with 6 different animals.…

Running in the Dark

Last night I ran in the dark, through a forest. No street lights, no moonlight, just my feet navigating a rather soggy, uneven path. It was hard to see the way ahead, and there were potential hazards all around – fallen branches, puddles, pot holes, werewolves and vampires. Sometimes our imagination runs ahead of us…