Freedom From The Mundane

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I’ve spent the last few days thinking about Marc Palombo, my friend who died suddenly on Friday 5th June. I’ve tried to think of ways to sum him up, what he meant to me, the things I liked about him, the memories he was part of – kind of a hard thing to do [...]

June 11th, 2009 | Tags: death, Family, friends, funeral, life, Mark Palombo, Obituary | Category: Editorial Comment | Comments (3)

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Long day yesterday.
The alarm on my new phone isn’t shrill enough to yank me out of my sleep, and so invariably I find myself flopping back and lying for longer as I wait for another, stronger spur to get out of bed. Yesterday morning it was the sound of my wife’s alarm clock, indicating [...]

June 10th, 2009 | Tags: alarm clock, blog tour, Blogging, Books, Day Job, death, Freelance, friends, funeral, GNHosting, Internet, living, marketing, Obituary, promotion, Reading, Website, world tour, Writing | Category: Books, Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Internet, Interviews, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing | Comments (1)

I had planned on posting last night but fate transpired against it. I had a great weekend at my sisters in Glasgow; doing everything we planned and having a great laugh as we did it, but the weekend took an unexpected turn before I had even left the house on Saturday morning.
I got up as [...]

August 6th, 2007 | Tags: Animals, Editorial Comment, Film & TV, Obituary | Category: Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editorial Comment, Family, Music, Writing | Comments (4)

A day of roller-coaster events. I got up in the knowledge I had a morning funeral to attend to; my second in only a month. But I also knew I had the rest of the day off afterwards to take care of press release distribution for my new book out today – Poolside Poetry – [...]

March 2nd, 2007 | Tags: Obituary | Category: Poetry, Publishing and Marketing | Comments (1)