Entries from November 2008

November 26, 2008

Her Blood Is Gold publishing update

Her Blood Is Gold is now available in the UK but there has been a delay with the US distribution and it’s still not available there. 
If you are outside the UK you can buy copies now by ordering from amazon.co.uk, or direct from the publishers at archivepublishing.co.uk
If you would like a signed, numbered hardcover (limited [...]

November 17, 2008

On projection

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. -William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)
So true. It’s impossible not to project, both inwardly and outwardly, as we are always essentially subjective, [...]

November 10, 2008

On grief

Yes, I know, it’s a bit gloomy around here. First a post on childlessness, now grief. Well, it’s the time of year. We’re still in the Samhain window, the period in which we have honored the spirits of the dead for millenia. By early November in the Northern Hemisphere, our world is dying, changing, darkening. We [...]

November 4, 2008

On childlessness

The Oregonian writer and performance artist (and old WELL friend of mine) Tiffany Lee Brown, has a moving essay in the journal Oregon Humanities, on the painful private and public territory of childnessness, entitled Bubble of Silence. It’s a very well-written piece and deals with a neglected issue with honesty and depth. And this is an issue [...]