It’s interesting how life changes. After a tough year, I turned 19 and things began to get a lot better. That was mostly because of the beginning of a life-changing relationship with my future wife, Sharon. It started from a negative situation...
Following the heart break of losing Sheryl, I immediately cut short my living in Israel and returned home to London. I had loved deeply and taken part in fascinating adventures. Seen wonderful sights, including sitting on the edge of a mountain...
There is something I experienced in Israel which was both rare and extraordinary enough to merit a few words. My girlfriend Sheryl and I went to visit one of her old friends living in the ancient part of Jerusalem. We stayed within those holy...
Today’s blog continues both my life story and how I ended up interested in writing. We take a little jump to when I was 18 years old. Having broken up with a long-term girlfriend, I travelled to an Israeli farm for six months, to be honest...
The next step took me from song writing to poetry writing, and so that much closer to becoming an author. I was 14 when I realised that I could write, I remember exactly the moment it happened. From I know not where, a sudden desire to write...
I thought I would continue with my story about growing up and getting into writing. My dissatisfied and frustrated life changed once I got my first guitar at the age of 13. I fell in love with the second-hand acoustic instrument from the off...
2016 was the saddest and most difficult year of my life. It started well and busy as usual, mixing my business commitments with my ongoing burning desire to write. I had four able and loving sons and a happy marriage to a wonderful woman that...
I was such a hyperactive and generally wild child, that at eight years old my mother decided to put me into a hospital for a week’s observation on my mental condition. Lucky for me it turned out to be a homoeopathic...
I was born in London, specifically Clapton, back in 1954. The earlier spelling was ‘Clopton,’ which meant ‘farm on the hill’ but I can assure you that by the time I was born, any farmland had long been built over. In my time, it was modest...
I believe most children have an active and fertile imagination. Sometimes parents or the school system squash it out of them, sometimes it just gets lost by the wayside, and for the lucky few it is encouraged and admired.
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