Tag: Paris

• The Invisible Spark

  Those who would come to kill Fear we have an invisible spark Yet it’s our fear that keep us still And so our light dies in the dark. In Paris and Beirut and elsewhere In the midst of all that is terrible One with another starts to share That lighting of a spark invisible Once […]

  Andrew Whalan

  November 15, 2015

  Fiction, Poetry

  BATALAN, France, Paris, terrorism

• Je Suis Charlie (Freedom of Thought is Freedom of Speech)

  Those who wielded the guns at Charlie Hebdo not only wanted to silence freedom of speech. They wanted to silence freedom of thought. In both they are mistaken. They don’t understand the power of the pen… Writing is expressing thoughts and feelings out loud or on paper. Writing is the storyteller’s freedom of thought expressed as […]

  Andrew Whalan

  January 8, 2015

  Personal, Politics

  Charlie Hebdo, charlie hedbo, Freedom of Speech, freedom of thought, je suis charlie, Paris

• What Do I Call You Again?

  Some terms for addressing women and the pitfalls thereof: • Girly? Is this rural Australia in the 1950’s? • Madame? No I’m not the proprietor! • Mistress? No I’m not one of those! • Missy? Am I a spoil brat throwing a tantrum? • Princess? Nice try but you’re no Prince! • Miss? I’m not […]

  Andrew Whalan

  April 2, 2013

  Humour, Personal

  Feminism, Gone With The Wind, Good Manners, Lady, Madam, Paris, people, Prince, Radical feminism