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The Grumpy Chef: Cook Like a Kid! Mason Douglas Good god…being a chef can be boring at times… It’s not the hours or the getting changed 8 times a day or even the laborious meetings with officious officials from the FSA. (Damn killjoys banned unpasteurised foodstuffs and are proceeding to …
I love cities. Being in a place where my surroundings constantly buzz and I have little to no idea of what could happen next. So far, this drive took me from a small village in Scotland to its biggest city, Glasgow. And then to study in the city that they …
ONE 10 prison states of mind contributions from Polmont Young Offender’s Institution Writers
At the upscale New York City restaurant where I work as a waiter, the Rail consists of six tables with roomy armchairs across from six booths lined up along a wall of windows facing a side street near Central Park. New York Notes: Sirloin Senator — Watching Tables & Keeping …
Learn how to write a screenplay for the low price of only $299.99! — or at least that’s what the Hollywood establishment would like you to believe. As an aspiring screenwriter, my email overflows every single day with offers and claims from various ‘pros’ pitching their latest book or workshop: …
In the summer of 1978, a telephone call from Rosalie Gomes, an editor at the English-language Paris newspaper, Paris Metro, was to lead to an out of the blue bizarre correspondence with a young woman. The newspaper had received a letter from an American woman who was an inmate in …
It was utter coincidence that while the immigration debate began raging anew in the US media and tighter restrictions along the US-Mexican border were being called for, I visited Mexico in June for the first time. Mexico Notes –Geraldine Sweeney
Edinburgh Notes: Reflections on Gaza Flotilla Day, 31 May 2010 –Charlie Graham Remember the Boxes for Bosnia? When you were at school, or sending your kids to school during the recent times of war in the former Yugoslavia? You’d send the young ones off with a box and you’d think …
Peace in La Paz During the week I recently spent in El Salvador, the only time I felt truly clean was the day we went to the beach at La Paz (Spanish for peace). The poverty and violence of the city ebbed away as we watched a small fishing boat …
In 1811, by municipal decree, Manhattan Island, between 14th and 155th Streets, was cordoned off into a carefully plotted rectilinear street grid — avenues run north and south, streets east and west. The first New World city to adopt such a plan, New York was ripe for commercial expansion north …
On the eve of my public conversation with the Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally, as part of a Sydney Writers Festival event on the topic of Forgiveness, I felt nervous but prepared. It would be my first time moderating panels at the Festival, now the third-largest in the …
The Sense of an Ending –MSP Christopher Harvie I. I have been grateful over the past few years for the hospitality of the Guardian’s ‘CommentisFree’, until its self-editing system was changed and new-style gatekeepers made it clear that freedom stopped around Watford Gap: not just my contributions but anything from …
This is Mine: ‘ME-2’ (moi aussi) –Martin Belk Glasgow, May 2010 I get frustrated, searching for ways to outwit, outsmart, outfox the ubiquitous ad campaigns for booze, drugs, soulless Pop music, computer games and mobile phones that too often possess the minds of the new ‘ME-2’ generation.
Four-Year Stretch: Reflections of a 21st Century Graduate –Peter Simpson You may ask yourself, ‘How do I work this?’… You may ask yourself, ‘Where does that highway lead to?’… And you may ask yourself ‘My God, what have I done?’ —Talking Heads, 1981
On May 17, 2010, the justices of the US Supreme Court, in a miraculous decision, barred life terms for young offenders who haven’t committed murder. Miraculous because the current court leans decidedly to the right, and also because we in the US are very good at locking up and throwing …
Bebelplatz We huddle, peer through the pane of glass at our feet pebbled with raindrops as a large man crouches down with a folded tissue, gently wipes them away revealing more to us than bare shelves and missing books.
1. Where are you from? 2. Where are you now? 3. By way of? 4. Would you do it all again? 5. Describe your last memory of leaving what you consider ‘home’ or where you’re from. 6. What’s your profession? disclaimer: We wanted a quick survey not …
