Ashleylister

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• What If?

  

  Not much to say for this one but I have written a children's poem for a change. What if? What if I were a bird? Would my fear of heights inhibit me? Would I... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• What If - Everything Vanishes

  

  A Happy New Year to you. One thing after another has prevented me from being an active blogger in recent weeks. I’m very happy to be back. I over-think things. ... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cliché

  

  Although with us all the time, it's just particularly noticeable at New Year, rife in fact if you go looking for it, the cliché - ridden to exhaustion (just lik... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cliches

  

  cliché noun 1A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. ‘that old cliché ‘a woman's place is in the home’’ ‘the usual... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2019 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yuletide

  

  It seemed appropriate for this 'betwixtmas' blog to cast a brief look back at the origins of the festive season we are currently enjoying, in all its layers of... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Christmas..... I Remember..

  

  I can still feel the excitement from Christmases more than sixty years ago when I was a child. I can taste the satsumas from the bowl on the table at my... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Retronymy

  

  At least one fellow blogger has stumbled (albeit most entertainingly) way off into the etymological weeds when getting to grips with this week's given subject. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Retronomy

  

  “Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tinseltown

  

  So (don't you just hate when people start sentences, speeches, Saturday Blogs even, with an interjection?) this week's piece is supposed to be all about... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Space

  

  Fasten your seatbelts, gentle readers. We're blasting off for another wacky Saturday blog, looking to achieve escape velocity and set a redoubtable course for... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Space - The Final Frontier

  

  Space is such a fascinating subject and as a generation we are so fortunate that, unlike our forebears, we can look up at the night sky and have some idea what... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rapunzel Complex

  

  Hair and Fur - another theme that did little to inspire my blogging compadres, apparently No matter, I'm going to make this Saturday a 'Grimm Hair Day'. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magical Creatures

  

  When I think of furry little creatures I go a little bit squishy. I think of the characters that were so beautifully illustrated in the Beatrice Potter stories. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Why Do Bears Sing?

  

  Surely the most pertinent question for the inhabitants of Planet Earth right now and the one most deserving of a straight answer is not strictly to do with... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• For Answers We Need Questions....

  

  As mankind we are forever asking questions. That's how we've evolved, learned and experienced. Our minds are questioning as the norm. Answers are not always... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Question The Answers

  

  "There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe." Friedrich Nietzsche When it comes to finding... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ask The Right Question And You Get The Right Answer

  

  When I perform today's poem I always preface it by saying that when I was a kid there were plenty of protest songs on the radio. Now there are none so I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Answers - Who Am I?

  

  Over the last few evenings I’ve been searching my ancestry for possible answers. I was able to confirm to another family member that the details he’d passed on... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Weird Little Creations

  

  Dolls - heck, what am I supposed to write about you? I know you can inspire fierce and lasting devotion among humankind but I've never owned one, never played... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dolly

  

  Here we are again. That time of year when I start to notice just how few chunky knits I have in my wardrobe. For someone who grumbles about the "cold night... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION