Changed Days Indeed is a little on the dark side with a twist in the tail. It’s hard to find a single answer when I’m asked what the poem’s about. It’s about how ancient relationships can still cast a shadow over us despite the passage of time and how easily unresolved emotions can be [...]

I’d like to share a story about a girl I went to school with more than two and a half decades ago. She was, to us teenagers (so worldly wise we were at the ripe old age of around fourteen), considered rather odd. Her name was, let’s say, Anna.

Long long ago, in the days before the Internet, a mouse was something that made maidens hitch their hooped skirts up and scream. Today that little mechanical wonder is attached to what is arguably the biggest conversation killer of our time. I’m talking real live face to face conversations here, not chats or IM’s.
My family’s [...]

We were just sitting on the warm grass, side by side, enjoying the sunshine. Little did I know my dog Pip was going to teach me something very important that lazy afternoon.

Sometimes your conscience gives you a prod to do something about the planet. At least that’s what mine is doing!

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As she twiddled with her stripey pajama sleeves, gazing out at the night stars through her moonlit window, she heard something. Hannah frowned in the middle of a yawn (which is quite a funny face to see), not sure what the noise had been and stopped fidgeting. Yes, there it was again. It sounded like a whisper…

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Ever wonder how it all started and where? This Live Science article explains it.
Humans had been speaking for a couple hundred thousand years before they got the inspiration or nerve to mark their ideas down for posterity.
But when a Mesopotamian people called the Sumerians finally did scratch out a few bookkeeping symbols on clay tablets [...]