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• The post-match report
  on Mar 7, 2013 in Friends Life football friends friendship
  Some friends of mine and I have a game we play any time we all go to a party together. We don’t really have a name for it – it definitely needs one – but we pattern it after the television coverage of a major sporting event. A big football matc...
• Transition
  on Dec 3, 2012 in Family Friends Life Writing 40th ageing birthday growing up musings
  Tomorrow I turn 40. There… I’ve said it! For months, it’s been there, creeping up on me, peeking out from behind the corners of my consciousness, shimmering silver from beneath the receding black, etching a bit deeper into the smile lines. On t...
• The eternity of Joe Alvarez
  on Nov 25, 2012 in Friends Life childhood death Grief Loss and Bereavement memories remembrance
  When I played football as a child, there was this guy on the team named Joe Alvarez. You could go to every practice, read all the names on the team-sheet and play countless matches together, and of all the kids there, Joe was the one you’d notice t...
• Battle of the sexes
  on Nov 18, 2012 in Friends Life London Sex & Relationships battle of the sexes Mad Men men Meryl Streep relationships sex sexism women
  I’m on the job hunt these days, and a friend of mine just quit the one she’s had for two years. This piqued my interest because hers was the sort of role that I always found interesting and even coveted. But she insists that I’d be a fool to go...
• Remembrance
  on Nov 11, 2012 in Life Poetry armistice november 11 poppies poppy Remembrance Day World War I World War II
  If I die Do not cry Remember me as I am Remember me as a friend Remember me without tears Remember this one thing: That I haven’t really gone away My mind always ran free It’s just time for my feet To catch up with me!    ...
• The Streets
  on Oct 20, 2012 in Life London Writing creativity musings writer's block
  It was a beautiful day in London on Tuesday, one of those days that reminds you why you’re here, one of those days when you feel like you’re a part of something bigger, something important. Apart from New York, no other city can make me f...
• Walking contradiction
  on Sep 11, 2012 in Life London Random anger stress tiredness work
  I shoved a guy the other day. It wasn’t a push. It was a good, old-fashioned, solid shove, a violent explosion, inner rage pouring out that I didn’t even know was there. It was like putting an empty coffee mug in a microwave and watching in shock...
• How To Write
  on Sep 2, 2012 in Life Random Writing advice journalism words Writer writer resources writing
  Recently, I’ve been asked by a few people what advice I would give someone who wants to be a writer. They assume because I have a blog and once, as a full-time journalist, I wrote for a living, that I ought to be able to tell others how to do it. I...
• Higher, faster, stronger…
  on Aug 1, 2012 in Life London London2012. sport Olympics
  London made me proud last weekend. The Opening Ceremony of the XXX Olympiad was a brilliant celebration of British history, culture and diversity. The passing of the torch and design of the flame were inspired moments. For me, there is always somethi...
• Wankers!
  on Jul 22, 2012 in Life Sex & Relationships health masturbation science sex education
  I was thinking of masturbation earlier today. Not in the sense of putting it on the day’s “to do” list (although — what the hell — maybe I was, you don’t need to know every damn thing!), but in a more general, historic con...
• The first kiss
  on Jul 12, 2012 in Friends Life Sex & Relationships Back To The Future childhood cinema dating kissing love sex sports illustrated swimsuit
  Like any red-blooded boy of the age of 13, when I was growing up, I imagined nothing the Almighty had created could compare with kissing a girl. I did the whole deal: making out with pillows, feeling up two slightly deflated footballs… When I s...
• The one I love
  on Jul 2, 2012 in Friends Life love sadness childhood death loss pets animals
  I’ve been chatting online with a friend of mine who’s been quite distraught at the prospect of her cat being put down. Listening to my friend mourn her pet brought memories flooding back of my own experience a few decades ago and inspired this pi...
• The Death of A Bug
  on Jun 26, 2012 in Family Poetry Random bugs life poetry
  Sadly, over the last few weeks, all my writing has been of the business type, with reports, proposals and budgets stealing away my precious creative writing time, even on weekends. I’ll be back soon, but just for you, my readers, here is one of...
• All that remains…
  on Jun 12, 2012 in Family Life Writing family love parents relatives siblings
  I found out a little over a year ago that my late grandfather liked to write. It is a failing of myself that I had never thought to ask. It came up in casual conversation with my great-aunt, whom I’d dropped by to visit over a busy Christmas schedu...
• Disconnected…
  on Jun 5, 2012 in Life London Random communication Internet
  I usually write this blog at home, sitting in the living room in front of the telly. This one is being written over several days in various outdoor places. As I write now, my internet connection has been down for 10 days, two hours and 17 minutes. (T...
• Headbangers ball
  on May 14, 2012 in Random Life talent childhood headbanging
  I can hit my head against solid surfaces and objects really, really hard. That might be perceived as a flippant statement, maybe a little in-joke you don’t get, or a philosophical metaphor for the struggle of the human brain to fathom the weight of...
• In an age of 24-hour news, how do we know what’s right?
  on May 3, 2012 in Random Writing ethics journalism media news press freedom trust truth World Press Freedom Day
  In recognition of World Press Freedom Day 2012 How good is the media? Which branches of it can I trust? Where will I find balance and substance instead of trash and sensationalism? How believable are the anonymous sources on the Internet? How can we...
• Rum diary
  on Apr 16, 2012 in Friends Life London alcohol drinking pubs woody allen
  It occurs to me, suddenly, in the middle of Month Four of 2012, that I might drink too much. I don’t mean that I’m in that Leaving Las Vegas, pints-of-rum-with-my-cereal league, not yet anyway; most of the veins in my face are still, as of now, n...
• Pants on fire!
  on Apr 8, 2012 in Friends Life Writing credibility honesty journalism lies relationships writing
  I lied to a journalist last week. It was not a sneaky misdirection, not a subtle not-quite-the-whole story, wink, wink. I flat-out, bald-faced (where did the expression “bald-faced” come from, anyway? As a 30-something-year-old who looks a lot yo...
• The garden cycle
  on Apr 1, 2012 in Life Random circle of life flowers gardening nature trees
  Last weekend, with the trees not quite fully leafed out, the sun’s unabashed rays filled my back garden with Spring’s bright light. The place glowed with a certain timbre, like the soft glare off old early risers, the little plants that w...

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