Kathryn Petro-Harper is a Renaissance woman; she has worked as a librarian, psychotherapist, and community advocate. She is also a self-taught artist, poet, and an omnivorous, voracious reader. Kathryn dedicates her life to igniting curiosity, promoting creative and critical thinking, and inspiring enthusiasm in people for lifetime learning. She believes passionately in the innate creativity…
I chose this excerpt because I feel it shows Ernest Dempsey’s ability to play with ideas. This is only the first page of his short satire, “Imaginative.” –JGR _____________________________________________ Late in the night, Muria heard some unusual noise in the kitchen while taking the only dustbin to the opposite corner of the living room for…
“Humor is peace in the true sense of the word,” says Ernest Dempsey in Part II of our Riehlife conversation as our thoughts roam over such topics as the important influence of his brother and how Pakistani culture views writing/writers.–JGR JGR: I know you’ve been working on your first book, “The Biting Age” for five…
“Essentially, I am living in Pakistan only physically.” This is one of the interesting revelations from the conversation Ernest Dempsey (Karim Khan of Pakistan, author of the new collection of satirical stories, “The Biting Age”) and I share today and tomorrow on Riehlife. Part I takes in the territory of humor in the family and…
Sally Nicoll is the author of Bets and the City, a Bridget Jones meets Wall Street beginner’s guide to day/swing trading known in the UK as financial spread betting. Sally and Eric discuss how traders can profitably deploy Ten Zen Second techniques to improve decision making, cut losses and increase profits.
This week I’m featuring Ernest Dempsey and his new book The Biting Age. We’ll be chatting about writing, his life in Pakistan and the virtual world. I’ll also be bringing you an excerpt from his book. Here’s my review of Ernest Dempsey’s The Biting Age: Ernest Dempsey’s mind dances on the pages of the Biting…
Ken is a technical writer, singer/songwriter, Web developer, instructional designer, and non-fiction junkie who blogs about the nature of creativity. What is it? Why do we do it? How can we bring more of it into our lives? He is a co-developer of the Creativity Happens workshop and currently in training as a creativity coach….
THE GREAT AMERICAN BUM SONG Come all you jolly jokers, and listen while I hum, The story I’ll relate to you of the Great American Bum. From the East to West, From North to South, Like a swarm of bees they come They sleep in the dirt, and wear a shirt That’s dirty and full…
My father wrote me that recently one of his friends had educated him on the difference between bums and tramps. These were terms in use during the Great Depression…before Street People and Homeless. Listen and learn.–JGR I had always thought that the words “bum” and “tramp” were interchangeable. Not so. A tramp is a person…
“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the…