Postmodernnomad

We are at the hospital.  Waiting for the drop to finish dripping medicine into my son.  Waiting for the doctor to come back with the results.  We are waiting for the nurse to tell us we're done and can go home.  Waiting for the medicine to work. We are waiting for him to get better.  I wonder what we'll all do with ourselves when we can stop waiting?

OK my blog is all over the place with bits of creative writing and political rants and musings about life, the universe and everything....  So, in keeping with the rest of the chaos, here's my review of Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfish', pasted here from 'Goodreads': I liked it but I didn't love it. Far too long and too wordy. In Kirsty Wark's interview with Donna Tartt, the writer talks about Hemingway's iceberg effect ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiL1d... ) - but this principle does not seem to be much in evidence. She talks about speed and density. Well the density is definitely there but the speed? I found myself yelling 'Get on with it!' many times! Speed is subjective, and I achieved this as a reader by skimming the boring bits... Didn't Elmore Leonard say something about 'Try not to write bits that your readers will skip over'?  But it's a story of loss and of longing. The book is populated with more lost children tha...

Let's see what happens.  Lots of news in the media right now about the government's inclusion policy not working - so that children with what we normally refer to as 'special needs' suffering in the classroom alongside other children.  It seems to be an election issue .  What if young people and children have a chronic illness that prevents them participating in school life; not 'special needs' as officially defined but still a person that needs help?  So today, AT LAST, we have a multi-partner meeting at school to see if something can be done to help.  Why is it so difficult?  It sounds so easy if you read the rules .  But the reality is different.  Every day is stressful because we don't know if it's going to be a school day or not, and that is not good for sufferers of IBD.  So, waiting with bated breath.