Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Sorceress to Live

by Helen Ivory Exodus 7:11 For her neighbour’s sicknesswas more than merely unnatural;for he sang perfectly without moving his lips.For she is intemperate in her desiresand pilfers apples from the orchard;for she hitches her skirts to clamber the fence.For her womb is a wandering beast;for she is husbandless, and at candle timebrazenly trades with theContinue reading “Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Sorceress to Live”

The road not taken

by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because itContinue reading “The road not taken”

Farewell to a comfortable office life and it’s hey ho for the open road

Having made my decision to move on it was not just a simple case of finish work as a journalist at 5pm on a Friday and start working as a roadie for a puppet show at 9am on the following Monday morning. Giving up the flat would be a bit of wrench. It was theContinue reading “Farewell to a comfortable office life and it’s hey ho for the open road”