At 11am today, like a lot of people I will be observing the two-minute silence. And later this afternoon I will be silent again, at the funeral of my schoolfriend S, who killed herself because of depression.
She didn't fight in wars, but she made the world - my world...
Posted 6 July 2011 | 16:11:49 (EST)
When I said, with a glowing "Oh ho!", that the Huffington Post had asked me to blog for them, I received minimal "Oh ho" back. "Write about unpaid journalism," snarked my Twitterfeed, apparently confusing writing the odd piece with being put in a sweatshop and lashed until a Pulitzer came...
53 Comments | Posted 10 November 2011 | 23:00:00 (EST)