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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Days that never come back but stay forever

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I was fast asleep in the middle of the night. In the dark room I was suddenly dragged out of my sleep by a loud rumble from the stairs beside my bedroom door. I can hear it now, like the fast, angular tumble of a heavy object in a dry washing machine. Except it started at the top of the stairs and was the size of a human bein... More..

Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Understanding the poetry of William Butler Yeats

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(An Extract from "W. B. Yeats and the Murder of Honour Bright" by Patricia HughesISBN 0-9550978-2-7The Poetry of William Butler Yeats I began to look through Yeats' biographies and papers and found them very carefully prepared and edited. Reading his poetry I tried to find references and allusions to a possible relationship w... More..

Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals Making career changes mid life

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There are currently lots of people writing about job changes in midlife - some about the new ideas that surface with the onset of the midlife crisis - but how many of us really make deliberate changes, and how many of fall - or are pushed - into new directions?In my career, well-qualified though I was, I never got off the fir... More..

Jobs & Careers > Occupations (Other) The benefits of being a translator

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My mum was German, and when I was born she didn't speak much English, so I grew up speaking German in England after the Second World War, at a time when it was not exactly fashionable to do so. When I started school my mother had had enough verbal abuse and suspicious looks, so she insisted that I and my brother and sisters s... More..

Personal Finance > Retirement Cheapest places to live for seniors

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The cheapest places to live for seniors?Well. for a start it depends on your personality. Are you grumpy and bitter? Better live on your own! You can rant at anything and anybody at will, with no-one around to tell you to be quiet, or worse still, cheer up. Living alone makes it easy for you to spend the rest of your life wit... More..

Personal Finance > Personal Finance (Other) The link between money and happiness

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My husband had been ill for some time, but neither we nor the doctor knew what was wrong. We knew he was drinking and smoking a lot, but we had no idea why. His hands shook, so I thought it might be incipient Parkinson's Disease. He had always has eczema, and now his skin started to fall off in large white sheets, collecting ... More..

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