Category: Social Comment

• I Don’t Often Comment on American Affairs, But…

  I do have to say this: President Joe Biden is too old. I say it in a non-political way, because I have previously been advised that I don’t know enough about American politics, and I have no wish to offend those who do, but can a man who apparently gets lost on his way to…

  frederick anderson

  August 26, 2021

  Social Comment

  Afghanistan, age, Competence, future, Nuclear, President, survival, wealth

• Catalogue of Shattered Dreams

  

  When I was young I was designed to become a writer.   Of course in those days we knew nothing about DNA but in the sunshine of my bright ideal I saw myself: Hunched over a typewriter, in a dim room with a high window of nicotine-stained glass, Chain-smoking myself into a coughing stupor, Careless…

  frederick anderson

  June 19, 2021

  Homelife, Opinion, Social Comment

  art, Fulfillment, Health, humour, life, poverty, Reality, writing

• Hansel and Gretel

  

   “Bettina has farrowed.”  The letter said in my Uncle Owen’s stilted terminology.  “Ten perfect little piglings, four boys and six girls.”   I was shown the picture.  A cluster of grinning faces sniggered back at me. “Ten!”  I was impressed.  Lots of things impress you when you are six. “Poor Bettina!”   My mother sympathized.…

  frederick anderson

  June 11, 2021

  Opinion, Short Stories, Social Comment

  Betrayal, childhood, farm, Husbandry, Impression, Seasonal, wealth