From Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body: ‘You’ll get over it…’ It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could […]

Monday, I switched to Opera.  I’ve been frustrated with Firefox for awhile.  The biggest problem was how slow browsing had become with it.  I also had lots of problems with flash player. I’m not as used to Opera yet, but so far so good – browsing is MUCH faster and while I still have flash […]

Sometime in the last two days, I got my 10,000th visitor.  I must be famous now! Also, quite a few people have visited this blog trying to figure out “why plants need carbon and nitrogen.”  Quick and simple answer: They need carbon to do photosynthesis (make food) and they need nitrogen to make proteins.

From Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body: Ripping through this harmless reverie, a pair of hands seized mine and started banging them together as if they were cymbals. I realised I was meant to be clapping in time to the beat and I remembered another piece of advice from my grandmother. ‘When in the jungle […]

From Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body: Frank had the body of a bull, an image he intensified by wearing great gold hoops through his nipples. Unfortunately, he had joined the hoops with a chain of heavy gold links. The effect should have been deeply butch but in fact in looked rather like the handle […]