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Sex and the City and Cinderella

This link will take you directly to the YouTube conversation about Cinderella:

Allan on YouTube

And here's another interview - Love is like Gravity:

More conversations with Lilou

There are also three more, all short, and all to do with how we get confused about love.

This first one is about the archetypes of love and Princess Diana - and what we can learn from her.

watch?v=JAEbHD8zqH8

The second one is about ‘The Six archetypes of Love’ and Gauguin’s greatest painting, and what love truly is in our

The Art of Slowing Down

Today started in typical Monday style - all sorts of things needing to be done, some of which were rather time-consuming. I found myself wrestling with getting the video interviews onto my website, unsuccessfully. They are on Youtube, on Facebook, but not - as yet - on my website. Clearly this called for more expertise than I have, but that didn’t stop me persevering needlessly.

I think you can see the pattern.

Then I found I had no stamps for my niece’s birthday card - the postal rates have gone

Youtube and Me, part II

Archetypes and literature, and how they work - as explained by me in person.

Here are some more interviews of me by Lilou Mace, for those who are interested. Lilou herself is a very interesting person, as you’ll see if you cut and paste the links below, which take you to her ‘channel’ on Youtube….

Again these are select and drag to the address bar links, or at least until I master the way links work on this site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAEbHD...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqznZQ...

YouTube and Me

I was hoping to be able to have a link directly to the Youtube interviews right here on this page, but the link is a little more complicated than I’d expected. It should be up in a couple of days. Still, if you’re curious about Princes and frogs, or about Cinderella as she truly is (and not Disney’s debased version) you can go to Youtube, type in my name, and scroll down to about the sixth video.

There will be more video interviews. All were done by Lilou Mace, a truly delightful and intelligen

What’s in a word?

Browsing the news the other day I heard that the US Navy had deployed some destroyers to the Straits of Hormuz. This got me thinking of the word ‘destroyer’. Possibly it was because I’d been reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s wonderful novel Ceremony, in which she characterizes the white settlers who drove the Indians off their lands as being bewitched by the destroyer impulses of the world. Read it, if you want to go deep into the human psyche.

By definition a destroyer is a device whose only purpo

Be Famous! A simple how-to Guide to being Newsworthy

How to become newsworthy; five easy steps

So many ridiculous things become news, and so many worthy things become news for merely a few seconds before being forgotten, that I’ve devised a whole series of hints for all you aspiring celebrities so that you can become a news feature that will catapult you to instantaneous fame.

First: Create a drama where there wasn’t one before. George Bush did it by creating a war where one didn’t need to be (Iraq) and then declaring it ‘won’. When he felt his r

Bay Path, the Bookies, and me

The Bookies gathered at Bay Path (as I told you they would…) and were a delight to all who met them, as well as each other.

The event was the brainchild of Suzanne Strempek Shea, Bay Path’s extraordinary writer-in-residence, and Briana Sitler, the presiding genius of all things that need to be done with style and verve. At the podium were Jacquelin Blais, who was at the book desk of USA Today for more than a decade, and a series of writers including yours, the undersigned, who snuck himself in un