Tag: David Robbins

Pandemic values and the magic children bring

‘Kite Flying at World’s End’ is a beautiful, lucid read, edited to be tight and brief in its splaying out of the whole universe rolled into a few weeks. It leaves you with your heart holding onto the things that matter and a respect for how things must turn out.

Ode to the minds that sway

YOU MAY HAVE your opinion about how other people lead their lives or live within the confines of their bodies, but have you ever really considered taking the proverbial ‘stepping into someone’s shoes’ all the way? Stripping its narrative of sweet or sweeping platitudes, Jerry Rothwell’s film The […]

How long does a hamster last?

EPISODE 19 OF the podcast series The End of the Line takes the premises of the project and reaches into an even more complex situation than a quizzical ‘why don’t you want to have babies?’ posed by a stranger to a pretty young woman. Naomi, played by Jennifer […]