January 2026 marks five years since I started posting on this site. I began with regular blogs and in due course added various pages. My posts range through short fiction, essay-type reflections, garden musings, updates on current activities, interviews with interesting people, and occasional thoughts on the process of writing. The pages are home toContinue reading “Five blogs to follow”
Category Archives: Social sciences
New textbook on the social aspects of care at the end of life: a surprise project
In the autumn of 2022 I was a couple of years beyond the institutional world of full-time academic employment. I’d been putting my efforts into new forms of writing, such as reflective biographical pieces, garden musings, and short stories. I’d also written a play which had been well received at the Edinburgh Fringe that summerContinue reading “New textbook on the social aspects of care at the end of life: a surprise project”