by Paul Stephenson | Mar 18, 2019 | Net hate, Parenting, Politics
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash “Hi honey. How’s your new game?’‘It’s okay. My character fell out with their parents and couldn’t get any money so I killed myself.”“… You can do that?”“Yeah.”“Let me look at that.”Do you remember when the Internet seemed like a good...
by Paul Stephenson | Dec 19, 2018 | General, Parenting, Self Publishing, Writing, Writing Chronicles
Photo by Karla Alexander on Unsplash As I wrote a few weeks back, one of the main advantages of having a blog is the ability to set yourself yearly goals and then look back and judge yourself against them. It’s also one of the worst things about having...
by Paul Stephenson | Feb 21, 2018 | From the Vaults, General, Parenting
I’ve had a blog for a very long time. Over 15 years. Recently I’ve been thinking how it’d be nice to bring back some of the better old posts, once a week. I’m starting with a series that I did back in 2009, before Blood on the Motorway was but...
by Paul Stephenson | Jun 23, 2014 | General, Parenting
Another one of those weekends where I seem to exit it even less rested than I started it. On Sunday the girls were at an all day festival of pop in Sunderland, my stomping ground of old, so I drove them up in the morning and then hung around seeing old friends and...