Tony Parsons
Tony Parsons
sometimes painful break
It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.
thinking years class
Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.
lucky sometimes moments
Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.
honeymoon
It can't always be a honeymoon
letting-go mean knowing
Love means knowing when to let go.
mean beloved realizing
to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go
growing-up children fall
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
bully coward behaviour
I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
beautiful unconditional-love boys
When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
nice people guy
People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
years parent gone
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
mother father thumbs-up
It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
tattoo flesh ugly
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
running beach white
There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.