It all starts with an email: “Brexit will become official this coming week. What happens to the U.K. cases pending before the ECJ once Britain is no longer part of the EU? Might make a good analysis piece.” One of the editors I work with has a great idea. This comes in late on Friday … [Read more…]
I’ve started The Artist’s Way, to help me write more, which is one of my 2020 resolutions. It’s a self-help book, first published in 1992, which is supposed to people with “artistic creative recovery.” It’s written by a spiritual Christian lady who is also a recovering alcoholic so, to be honest, I’m having a difficult … [Read more…]
The news, a Swiss self-help guru claims, is worse than alcoholism. Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli wrote a piece called Avoid the News, which was a major inspiration for Dutch journalist Rob Wijnberg, who went on to found The Correspondent. That publication recently reprinted part of Dobelli’s essay. “Today, I’m “clean”. Since 2010, I’ve been entirely … [Read more…]
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