Posts Tagged ‘ Past tense ’

In lieu of flowers

Charlton Heston, 84

I first knew him as Moses, then as Ben Hur and El Cid, and as Astronaut George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (the original one, not the one with Mark Whalberg, although he did play a cameo on that one didn’t he).
As a kid all I knew of him was that he [...]



Fiction

A long time ago, in a province far far away, an eighteen year old girl decided to leave her family home and strike out for herself. She did this for several reasons: she thought it was time she broke free from her parents’ authority and pursue a vocation in writing; she wanted to experience the [...]



It’s all coming back to me now

All these blogs I started because I was trying out the various options available to bloggers back in 2004/05. Sam and I ran blogs in blogspot in 2004 before getting our own domain and host early in 2005. I tried Wordpress.com late in 2005 as well as other free wordpress hosts just to find [...]



How a child remembers an old house

A child remembers an old house that she has not lived in for a long time. The house she remembers is huge, with a garden in front with a tree giving shade, grass as green as moss. The inside is spacious, she remembers pedalling on a trike in the living room where she was not [...]