Alwayswriteagain: Disnhing the Book Marketing Dirt!

Alwayswriteagain: Disnhing the Book Marketing Dirt!: BookBaby , a leading self-publishing book company, claims almost 8,000 independent writers completed its 2017 Self-Publishing Survey and tha...

Alwayswriteagain: Keeping Israel”s Coolest Kids on Ice!

Alwayswriteagain: Keeping Israel”s Coolest Kids on Ice!:   I’m not a gambling woman. But the odds on a Jewish American healthcare insurance manager and an Israeli Christian Arab computer technici...

Alwayswriteagain: More Half-Cut Than Deepcut!

Alwayswriteagain: More Half-Cut Than Deepcut!: Riffle through Google’s top pages and you may discover what really happens at the British Armed Forces’s Princess Royal Barracks in Deepcut...

Alwayswriteagain: Catching Fallen Stars

Alwayswriteagain: Catching Fallen Stars: When some years ago Queen Elizabeth remarked that “grief is the price we pay for love”, she did not merely popularise a truism but quoted t...

Alwayswriteagain: Of Biblical Secrets, Truths and Doubts

Alwayswriteagain: Of Biblical Secrets, Truths and Doubts: I am unaccustomed to reviewing books about Christian theology and many of this blog’s regular readers will be justified in thinking I’ve jum...

Alwayswriteagain: Where Lovers, Lasses Count Their Losses!

Alwayswriteagain: Where Lovers, Lasses Count Their Losses!: I was more than half-way through Philip Roth ’s American Pastoral when I realised that the location of the prizewinning novel and recent ...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised: Amid warnings that the fall of Aleppo may be just the start of “a bloodier phase” in Syria’s continuing civil war, I’d like to take time o...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Why Islam Cannot Be Modernised: Amid warnings that the fall of Aleppo may be just the start of “a bloodier phase” in Syria’s continuing civil war, I’d like to take time o...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Being Alone –Together!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Being Alone –Together!: Israeli President Reuven Rivlin was abroad when his predecessor Shimon Peres died. So  perhaps his visit and important speech to the Ukra...

Alwayswriteagain: Winter Arrives – a Week Too Late

Alwayswriteagain: Winter Arrives – a Week Too Late: Winter is beginning to make its presence felt in Israel. But only just and about seven days too late. If only the  hard blistrering winds...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: As Great Men Leave The World ….

PerfectlyWritePoetry: As Great Men Leave The World ….: Among the flood of tributes to the late Cuban leader, Fidel Castro has been one at The Guardian newspaper where historian Richard Gott no...

Alwayswriteagain: U. S. in the Shadow of Kennedy’s Glare

Alwayswriteagain: U. S. in the Shadow of Kennedy’s Glare: Everyone then alive remembers where they were – what they were doing – when US President  John Kennedy was murdered. It was a terrifying p...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Living Will

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Living Will: This poem was first written as part of a  story and has been published in its present form by Mark Ulyseas of   L ive Encounters Magazine ...

Alwayswriteagain: What Will Larry and Kate Do Next?

Alwayswriteagain: What Will Larry and Kate Do Next?: South African-born software creator Daniel J Miller is not all he seems. So it’s no surprise that when he wears his other hat as writer, D...

Alwayswriteagain: One Woman’s Appeal for ‘No War, No More’

Alwayswriteagain: One Woman’s Appeal for ‘No War, No More’: On November 23 1956 the ancient Jewish community of Egypt was obliterated overnight. Thousands of people, many of whose families had hel...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: This Nobel Prize Is No Joke!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: This Nobel Prize Is No Joke!: As luck would have it,  I was reading an obituary of Italian Nobel literary laureate, Dario Fo when news broke about this year’s winner, Bo...

Alwayswriteagain: Sage Advice Needed Here

Alwayswriteagain: Sage Advice Needed Here: When we recall the story of the Vietnamese Boat People we tend to think of refugees who fled their war ravaged homeland and Communism to in...

Alwayswriteagain: Delayed British Government Report on "’Muslim-Only...

Alwayswriteagain: Delayed British Government Report on "’Muslim-Only...: The British Government has been accused of “allowing some areas [of the country] to operate as if they were Muslim-only zones." The Ho...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Celebrating ‘Jewtown’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Celebrating ‘Jewtown’:   Just in time for the Jewish New Year I’ve received  a sweet gift of poetry celebrating the story of the once vibrant Jewish community of...

Alwayswriteagain: She Performs, She Prays …

Alwayswriteagain: She Performs, She Prays …:   There must be precious few secular  musicians  invited to lead synagogue prayers. But this happened last night  in Karmiel, Galilee whe...