I want to write about experiments in poetry and poetic form. This isn’t going to be a comprehensive history of experimentation in poetic form. That would be a very long blog post, maybe a book – and not one that I want to write (just yet anyway!) Instead, this is a personal story about being … Read more
I didn’t get what was meant to be happening with John Cage’s 4:33 when I first heard about it. This was a piece of “music” that lasted for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Except it wasn’t a piece of music because the musician would sit at the piano (or any other instrument) and not play … Read more
During the Writing Marathon back in March I spent most of the time writing new material for the latest book. The title has mutated slightly, so that now it is called “The Journey to Wonder”. In the blog posts I wrote a lot about the process of writing, with plenty of statistics about the word … Read more
This is the first of a series of posts on the experimental. This will be a set of blog posts, which feature ideas and experiments. Different approaches. What is “Experimental”? There are two distinct definitions for the word. When aimed at science, (of a new invention or product), based on untested ideas or techniques and … Read more
When did you last say thank you and really mean it? When did you last send a note or an email to someone just to say thank you? It’s interesting how we can so often feel unappreciated in life, and yet we take so little time to show our appreciation of others. Perhaps we could … Read more
‘You’re never in a secure position. You’re never at a point where you have it all sewed up. You have to choose to be secure and like stone, or insecure but able to flow.’ – Keith Jarrett
A couple of weeks ago I published my second book of the year. It is called “Blue: Experiments in Sound”. The first book, “Values Count“, is a non-fiction book about values based working. It is available on this website as well as through Amazon. Sales in the first few months have been steady – it … Read more
In the last few weeks I have published “Values Count“, after a long haul figuring out how to produce a paperback book. Some achievement I think, although I am only now emerging from being mauled by the Inner Critic beast (ICB for short) that ran loose for a couple of weeks after the book came … Read more
Earlier in the week I mentioned that my new book has just been published and is available on Amazon. Here are the opening paragraphs from the Introduction: “It’s all about the money – that seems to be the measure by which everything is judged these days. Every day we hear about new scandals relating to … Read more
This blog post is the opening words of the new book which I am writing this year. The book explores key coaching themes and reflections from my coaching practise… It had begun as a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach, the sense that it would take just one simple little irritant to push me over the … Read more