There are times when it all comes together. Seeing an image, a picture that completes a thought or thoughts that have been riling around in your brain for a while. And suddenly there is this picture that you may have seen many times before, but now it means something. Or means something [...]
Twenty years ago last summer something dreadful happened. It was like the self that I had known to be me — suddenly died — and I was someone else now. Someone almost exactly like myself, but different, because of this experience of almost having died.
It was awful, thinking I was going [...]
Once upon a time, I spent the night in a small hotel in Torquay, on the southwest coast of England. In the morning, very early as I remember, a tray was brought to my room, not of coffee but of tea. I don’t remember now what it was that I had ordered, [...]