December 2010 – Larry Livermore

A Cup Of Kindness To Greet The Bleary Dawn

This will be my tenth New Year’s Eve without drinking, my tenth consecutive year doing something that for most of

I’d spent a bit of time in the UK before I realized the grotty industrial suburb at the end of

It started innocently enough: the storm begins on Sunday morning. Schadenfreudists – and I know there are many of you

I’ve always tended to be a glass-half-empty kind of guy. Give me a million dollars and I’ll point out that

The other night a good friend came back to town with his band after a successful mini-tour around the Northeast

Ricky Gervais’ witty and well-written defense of atheism has been getting a good airing on the internet for the past

The first time I heard Bob Dylan’s “Chimes Of Freedom” I was in tears for almost the entire song. It’s

The first Premiership match I ever saw was a dispiriting relegation battle (a “battle” in which both sides had apparently

Lately I’ve spent a fair bit of time sitting around – as usual – trying to avoid writing, or at

Whenever I visit a new city or country, one of the first things I find myself doing is to wonder