by Graeme Cumming | Mar 9, 2022 | Getting Old, Life Lessons, Politics |
If you’ve caught my previous two posts on this theme, this’ll be the last – for now. For several years, my daughter was a carer, initially seeing people in their homes, before working in residential care. She didn’t live with me but, when she... by Graeme Cumming | Feb 24, 2022 | Getting Old, Life Lessons, Politics, Thinking Aloud |
When I wrote It’s No Fun last week, it sparked off a whole range of other memories and thoughts, and I need to get them off my chest. Some of you, I’m sure, will relate to them. My first experience of care homes was back in the late 1980s when my grandma... by Graeme Cumming | May 17, 2021 | Life Lessons, Nature |
As I grow older, I appreciate the natural world more. I’ve also come to realise that I’m most at peace when I’m in, on or by water, or I’m surrounded by trees. Forests and waterways feature prominently in my novels – though not always in... by Graeme Cumming | May 14, 2021 | Book Reviews, Life Lessons, Nostalgia |
Towards the end of last year, I read and reviewed The Initiate by Stuart France and Sue Vincent. You can read my thoughts here. It was the first of their books that I’d read and, although not written in a conventional form, it invoked my curiosity sufficiently to want... by Graeme Cumming | Jan 30, 2021 | Blogging, Book Sales, Events, Life Lessons, Meetings |
Some of you will know Sue Vincent already. I met Sue for the first time about five years ago, at the first ever Bloggers Bash. She and I had ‘met’ online through our blogs, but meeting in the flesh is, inevitably, a different experience. As I recall it,... by Graeme Cumming | Dec 5, 2020 | Blogging, Carrion, Life Lessons, Nostalgia |
Like all authors, I’ve been asked in the past whether what I write is from experience. I suspect most writers of fiction do draw from elements of their lives. That doesn’t mean to say JK Rowling attended a school of witchcraft and wizardry, or that Douglas...