by Orna Ross | Oct 22, 2008 | FICTION |
I see a reader on amazon.co.uk has dubbed the contemporary story in A Dance in Time (Izzy's story) to be “New Age”. No, no, no. I am not New Age. I never took on New Age beliefs for precisely the same reason that I dropped my (Roman Catholic) religion...
by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last night, I said goodbye to my “Get it Written” class who, since January last, have been beavering away at the task of completing a book. Some are now finished, some have completed first drafts, some have not got quite as far as they hoped when they...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Everybody says you are supposed to fight cancer. Newspapers carry stories of brave battles against the disease. And Western medicine pulls out its biggest guns for the war – chemotherapy, radical surgery, radiation… I am having all those treatments and more...
by Orna Ross | Sep 8, 2008 | FICTION |
It's the launch of “A Dance in Time” tonight and I have almost no hair. I have almost no hair because I have been having cancer treatment and last week, it started to fall out. In clumps. (Great timing!) So what to do? I could wear a wig. I could wear...
by Orna Ross | Sep 3, 2008 | POETRY |
Beyond Muslim, Hindu, Atheist, Christian, Buddhist, Jew… Beyond socialism, nationalism, feminism, capitalism, tribalism, communism… Beyond power, politics, money, identity, sex and culture… …there is a space. That's the sort of space I'd...