Alwayswriteagain: ‘We’re Not in Kansas Any More’!

Alwayswriteagain: ‘We’re Not in Kansas Any More’!: This essay was supposed to examine why so many western immigrants to Israel return to their birth countries or move on elsewhere. But a sta...

Alwayswriteagain: Make Eating a Joy

Alwayswriteagain: Make Eating a Joy: Only in Naples is a fun book with a serious message. Author Katherine Wilson makes it clear that when families eat (and sometimes pray) t...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: It's Never, Ever, 'All Over'.

PerfectlyWritePoetry: It's Never, Ever, 'All Over'.: Bob Dylan 's song, It' s All Over Now, Baby Blue , prompted the theme of veteran US writer Joyce Carol Oates 's most noted s...

Alwayswriteagain: Still Sowing Wild 'Oates'!

Alwayswriteagain: Still Sowing Wild 'Oates'!: N ow aged 77, Joyce Carol Oates still writes with the terrific – and terrifying vigour of a young woman flowing in full spate. Mo...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetry with Punch

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Poetry with Punch: When I opened this blog in April last year, I mused on the nature of poetry, and suggested that a poem is more than its base material...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Then – and Now

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Then – and Now: (“ Generation after generation reads the same words and says: ‘Was that then or is that now’?” – Rabbi Lord Sacks)   Then and Now   An...

Alwayswriteagain: Rudolf Abel’s Anglo-Jewish Connection?

Alwayswriteagain: Rudolf Abel’s Anglo-Jewish Connection?: I’m beginning to wonder if Soviet Cold War spy, Colonel Rudolf Abel was acquainted with anyone in the Jewish community of  Newcastle upon...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Time for You and Time for Me’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘Time for You and Time for Me’:   Cake   “Cake – let’s have cake”, you said. The same rotund vowels that robed us in a swish of velvet drapes drawn swiftly against ...