Deep Sober

‘You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that …

Sir John Falstaff: ‘We have heard the chimes at midnight Master Shallow.’ Shallow: That we have, that we have, that we …

‘In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer’. Albert Camus. Around about this time last …

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? …

Watching the entertaining and profoundly moving film First Man, which documents the career of Neil Armstrong, complete with a certain lunar …

I can’t say exactly when the original seed was planted; some distant and subliminal Freudian moment so long ago and far …

As part of my prescribed medicine regime, twice daily I take a quarter tablet of a drug called Metoprolol. Part of …

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us …

I first came across the phrase that titles this post many years ago, whilst reading a hoary old conspiracy theory book …

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, …