DRAMATIC ARRIVAL |
All dads have special memories of when their first baby was born. My own memory is not only special, it is utterly amazing too. Read on....
FROM the moment the pregnancy was con...
Posted by David on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:56:00 PST |
MAISIE ~ A WOMAN BEFORE HER TIME |
IN 2006 I submitted the first few Chapters of "Maisie" to several literary agents, all of whom rejected it and one of whom wrote back ... "this story doesn't work as a biography, nor do...
Posted by David on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:37:00 PST |
HAPPY NEWS YEAR ? |
HERE'S A NEW YEAR WISH FROM ME TO YOU ... MAY YOUR 2008 BE FULL OF PLEASANT EXPERIENCES AND GOOD HEALTH.
WHAT'S MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTION? WELL, IN 2008 I AM GOING TO DO MY BEST TO AVOID R...
Posted by David on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:25:00 PST |
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE |
IF YOU EVER DOUBTED THE POWER OF PRAYER, READ ON....
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
WE all knew dad was terminally ill, and so did he. Despite two major gastric operations, the cancer had spread to h...
Posted by David on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:28:00 PST |
HONEYMOON IN HOLLYWOOD |
HONEYMOON IN HOLLYWOOD
SOON after my fifty-ninth birthday, my partner Jenny made me an offer I couldn't refuse. "This time next year, I want to take you away on a special sixtieth birthday holiday, an...
Posted by David on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:36:00 PST |
JENNYS DRIVING AMBITION |
WHEN my partner Jenny and I set-up home together in early September 1980, I was aware of the fact that, since childhood, she had suffered terribly from the effects of epilepsy. I admired her str...
Posted by David on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST |
A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME |
DIVORCE can be an extremely unpleasant experience. Indeed, after more than thirteen years of marriage, I lost a home and virtua...
Posted by David on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:06:00 PST |
THE SHADOW OF HER SMILE |
LET me share with you a remarkable episode that occurred during the production process for an edition of my BBC weekly regional radio programme "As Time Goes By" scheduled for transmission on May...
Posted by David on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:08:00 PST |
MUM'S FELINE FRIENDS |
EARLY in March 1990, my mother was discharged from Torbay Hospital in Devon, and admitted to a Torquay nursing home suffering from th...
Posted by David on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:54:00 PST |
DIANA ~ HER DEATH FORESEEN |
ALMOST inevitably some of my fellow journalists and broadcasters will scoff at what they are about to read in the following paragraphs, and most of them will dismiss the event as mere coincidence.&nbs...
Posted by David on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:28:00 PST |
