Athena and Ye Olde Mappe
In 1838 while Fredrick Chopin (composer) and George Sands (author) were having a romantic interlude on the island of Mallorca, the Count...
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Arlo Mercia
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Mar 1, 20201 min
Entering Dragon-lands
More writing, more artwork, more joy!
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Arlo Mercia
Apr 1, 20182 min
Mentoring Month
Mentoring has been a bit of a theme in my life recently. At the school where I work (no, I still haven't given up the day-job), apart...
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arlomercia
Jan 31, 20182 min
The Sorrow of Isparag
'The Sorrow of Isparag' is underway! I took a couple of weeks to have a much needed holiday with Rob, then I cleaned out the cupboards...
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Arlo Mercia
Sep 1, 20172 min
Voice
Welcome September, spring in the southern hemisphere. Warmer weather and new beginnings. That was not the worst August I've ever had. It...
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Arlo Mercia
Aug 1, 20172 min
August 1 Tigers and Monkeys - August is a Tough Month
Even when I was in my teens I noticed that I always found life particularly difficult in August. Something bad would happen, or I would...
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Arlo Mercia
Jun 30, 20171 min
Musings from the depths of winter
If your book doesn't keep you up nights writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. —James A. Michener I found this quote...
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Arlo Mercia
May 1, 20172 min
May 1: Which is more dangerous - evil or incompetence?
In the northern hemisphere May Day is a spring festival; it celebrates fertility, new life and warmer times ahead. Here in the southern...
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arlomercia
Apr 1, 20172 min
Hey Mum, it's April 1
Today is the thirteenth anniversary of my mother's death. Yes, she died on April 1. I took this as a sign that she wasn't taking it too...
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arlomercia
Sep 8, 20162 min
Episode 2 - The IRS & Chocolate
Did I think the most likely outcome is probably that my passport arrives too late, gets lost in their office, they close my case and I...
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arlomercia
Jun 28, 20163 min
Episode 1 - The IRS and Chocolate
Like most people who live outside the United States I have watched movies that show the occasional scene where someone struggles to deal...
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arlomercia
Jun 15, 20162 min
If your dream is important enough you will get there in the end
I have put this photo in mostly for fun - here are my two early novels, which I wrote twenty years ago, freshly published on the...
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arlomercia
Jun 15, 20163 min
Perseverance and Serendipity
The blurb for my novel 'Margot's Men' says it is 'A haunting tale of what may be lost and found . . .' ironically this is true of the...
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