Allan G. Hunter's Blog, page 92
December 7, 2009
Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen
That was the start of a song in the 6os called, well, 'Wonderful Copenhagen' which was a big hit in England at the time.
Today, December 7th, is Pearl Harbor Day, and it's also the start of the Copenhagen Summit Conference on Global Warming. The British press is making much of this event, and the same front page is going to be carried by 56 newspapers world-wide to publicize the need for consensus and action on global warming.
No major US papers have joined in, with the exception of the Miami H...
November 30, 2009
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Doing Paperwork
I read with sadness about the four police officers who were murdered while drinking coffee in their morning coffee shop, yesterday.
Yet, obsessed with words as I am, I could not help noticing that several reports said the officers were sitting 'doing paperwork on their laptops'. Um, does anyone else feel this is odd? Paper is paper, and laptops are laptops. One can do administrative tasks on a laptop, but until it's printed out it's not 'paperwork'.
The reporter's odd language choice led to...
November 21, 2009
On a bicycle built for two…
I've up-loaded several videos to Youtube (drallanhunter is the name of my 'channel') of me on my 78 year old motorcycle. Some of you may have wondered what that has to do with Memoir writing, archetypes, or anything of that sort.
Matchless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEUgt...
So I shall explain. There are many ways to travel. One can slip into a steel box with heat and air-conditioning, and become instantly divorced from the rest of humanity as one zooms down the road. One can get...
November 17, 2009
Our words shape our reality
Phrases and words have their own history - and sometimes it's not what we think.
Recently someone signing off an email to me wrote, 'Toodle-oo!' and then signed it. 'Toodle-oo' may sound like fun, but actually it's a corruption of the French 'A tout a l'heure' meaning: see you before too long.
What's wrong with that, I hear you say? Nothing, except that in about the 1890s rich air-headed young men who couldn't speak French liked to try and flaunt both their money and their ignorance by...
November 16, 2009
Memoirs - words have them, too
Often I find it useful to look behind words to find out their history, because they have lifestories also, which - if we know them - are eye opening.
Take that much misused word 'deadline'. We use it all the time to describe the time some piece of work is due. And some deadlines are flexible. Some are permeable. Not so in the original sense. In every prison, because just about all of them used one, the deadline was the line painted on the ground, close to the perimeter, beyond which an...
November 15, 2009
The New Book; Write Your Memoir
A couple of people have asked about ordering copies because Amazon.com doesn't have the book listed as released, as yet. I'm not sure why that is. I have a supply of copies for friends and family on my desk, but they're for, well, friends and family, and I only have a few left. So I'd suggest the best thing to do is go to Findhornpress.com and then type in my name.
They have all my recent books there. The new one is ready, available, and discounted 20% (which is a neat thing to do for new ...
November 11, 2009
Of Mice and Men
Cleaning behind a door today I found two mice huddling together. They were obviously juveniles, and seemed very sleepy. So I found a piece of cardboard, slid it under them, and deposited them gently in a cardboard box. They continued to huddle.
Curious about this behavior I took a closer look. One mouse was looking very dead, but the other continued to snuggle up to it. As they were both about the same size, and both were smaller than average, I wondered if the surviving sibling was...
November 9, 2009
The New Book is here
Write Your Memoir
It's available from findhornpress.com and from Amazon (of course) and will be useful for Christmas…..
It has endorsements from Carlo Gebler, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Connie Griffin and others - all people who can be relied upon to know quality when they see it.
November 5, 2009
Books ahoy!
Alright, allow me some shameless self-promotion. It's the American way, isn't it? Copies of Write Your Memoir; the Soul Work of Telling your Life Story will soon be available. All two or three days. I just received a notice that my author's complimentary copies are on their way, which is a pretty good sign that Amazon will soon be in full swing selling them. You can do an advance order with a substantial savings, too.
