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  • Swimming in the System

    About nine years ago I experienced a panic attack for the first time in my life. It is an odd feeling, as if the world is enclosing and wrapping you in a straight jacket but not in a claustrophobic sense. It is as everything you see or feel creates an unsettling pressure, the slightest thing creates tension […]

  • 5:08 A.M.

    It has been one of those days in my life in which a sense of mortality looms large or at least the awareness, yes, the abiding awareness, of a painful degrading of one’s integument years ahead. Diagnosed with a spinal lower back problem which has caused me terrific pain down the length of my leg like the […]

  • H. Colthup (Kent,UK) “honest and challenging”

    This review is from: This Möbius Strip of Ifs (Paperback) This is a fascinating collection of essays that at times is almost too intimately honest; as if you’ve come across someone’s private diaries by accident. Mathias Freese does not hold back with his thoughts and insights as he looks back over his life and experiences. […]

  • Storming the Bastille

    I didn’t want to expend any energy writing about the writing “conference” I attended led by a freelance writer whose mind and approach to life was as narrow as a parrot’s ass. The day was to be composed of three workshops all dealing with the writing, publishing and marketing of a book. After giving her enough […]