Monthly Archives: March 2015

A Life-Changing Meeting With Dr Odd

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I lived in the age of social engagement where we chatted on Blogs and even smiled at dentists before they drilled holes in our teeth: a celebration of biological generosity, spreading our DNA to the four corners of the surgery.  “Being open … Continue reading →

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The Creative Abyss

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I spent my twenties, which seems like youth to me now, working as an unpolished clerical worker for a paper merchants. In those days they tried to define your job in terms of its function and status and “clerk” seemed correct to … Continue reading →

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Hope By The Glass

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

So I’m talking to my friend Greg.  Him for whom each new girl was, “Real ” at least for a weekend, although most weekends for him were spent taking a rest from life and romance, until he met his wife Sandra,that is, when the clouds … Continue reading →

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“The Man Who Missed The Boat:” Here’s The Cover

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

  The Man Who Missed The Boat, Pre-order available for Kindle, delivered to your device by mysterious means on 9th April Paper-back published 10th April How it Begins: He did not really have a career. More a series of jobs, which took … Continue reading →

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A Romance Of Flawed Beliefs

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

In our early days you were lost, it seemed to me, and you let me feed you with compliments, and I watched you flourish on the diet.  You were beautiful: a secret garden, a shy persona with a gift, a guarded women when I met you, who … Continue reading →

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Love’s Hidden Boundaries

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Can  Love be like an emissary from Heaven, who makes a journey once a lifetime?  If you are too busy to receive it, “Love” may leave your side forever, never to return, but I was not too busy, and nor were you I always thought; once we … Continue reading →

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Life In The ‘No’ Lane

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

By my middle years  I had built a living through using measurable skills, habits and routines so I could live, celebrate or exist in some safety, away from the shellfire endured by those who are careless of their wellbeing and happy to venture beyond those … Continue reading →

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OK Lets Talk Paranormal and the writer J.D.Brown

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

    Ok usually, when I say I am going to talk about the paranormal, people think I am going to discuss my fitness regime but, sometimes, that is incorrect. In my movements around the Blogosphere I come across people of every persuasion, walk … Continue reading →

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The Guardian Angel

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Sometime later, after the wedding and the honeymoon, when we were settled into our new home and I was about to suggest we bought a dog, she started talking about herself. I know you are going to say, “Shouldn’t you have … Continue reading →

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An Unrequested Departure

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

“I’m not very good at dying. You get very little training in it and, as far as I know, you only get the one chance so if you muck it up, you don’t make the proud exit of your dreams but  … Continue reading →

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