Whenever I think to myself…time for further reflections, I am taken back to my childhood. We laughed at so many things, my parents, my sisters and I, and as often as I recall adolescent years of uncertainty and self-doubt, anger, even despair, I also recall the laughter, not to mention the love. We all loved […]
Tomorrow the book entitled `Age of Confidence, the new Jewish culture wave,` is published. I note that the publisher The History Press, and other outlets – from Amazon to W H Smith, have added some detail to their previous blurbs. Below – from the History Press. “Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting […]
Someone posted a cartoon – I only glanced at it, finding it so repulsive I clicked `off` immediately – showing the recent escape from an Israeli prison of 6 Palestinian terrorists or freedom fighters, (whatever they truly are,) and alongside that, an escape from a concentration camp of some Jewish prisoners – who also dug […]
Autumn is approaching. Technically it`s already here. There are only five stories left from my collection that need further editing – by me, that is, before I send them all off to Peter Gimpel, of Red Heifer Press, who has come up with a great idea for a cover illustration. Meanwhile this arrived. A message […]
What surprises me, time and again, is not just that this ubiquitous plot motif continues to underlie series after series, story after story, plot after plot – the one about the dead wife/mother, I mean. What genuinely confounds me is that ( Jeff excepted, because he has learned from me,) I seem to be the […]
Defeated by the new lifestyle that we, like so many others, seem to be living, we return to Netflix from time to time, and see what`s there. As soon as I saw the title, `Hit and Run`, I wondered whether there was going to be a woman run over, leaving a grieving husband to fill […]
I didn`t know there was a new Jewish culture wave, and neither did I know we were in what could be called `an age of confidence.` But I am delighted about the forthcoming book of that title, edited by David Benmayer and Rebecca Taylor, with a foreword by Howard Jacobson. The purpose of the book […]
I have never before written two blogs in one day, but this evening I was vaguely looking through `Whats On` and found a series recommended by The Times produced by the Israeli Lior Raz – who was in, and wrote some of Fauda. Here is what I read: “In the series, set in Tel Aviv […]
I am immersed in the reviewing and editing of my short story collection, and the experience feels like the most self-obsessed process I have ever engaged in. Each story takes me back to the place, people or feelings that prompted me to write it. If everyone put together their own short story collection, and set […]
`Do you suffer from indecision?` asked the doctor. `Well. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don`t.` This was a joke repeated countless times by family members, during my childhood. And indeed, I sometimes did, and sometimes do still. I am coming to the end of editing my short story collection. Sometimes I look at a […]