http://www.workreport.net/ Mike Crowl blogs in two places on Orble, and more than two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much. en Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:01:00 GMT Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:01:00 GMT info@workreport.net info@workreport.net http://www.workreport.net/lois-lowry-quote/ At various times in my life I've read more books written for children than ones written for adults. I enjoyed Lois Lowry's books about a girl called Anastasia at one... http://www.workreport.net/lois-lowry-quote/#comments http://www.workreport.net/lois-lowry-quote/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:01:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/nzs-bookloving-society/ One last quote from Joy Cowley's book, Navigation. This time from pages 141/2. It's not until we travel overseas that we become aware of New Zealand as a nation of... http://www.workreport.net/nzs-bookloving-society/#comments http://www.workreport.net/nzs-bookloving-society/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:06:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/the-bleak-book/ Joy Cowley in her memoirs, Navigation, discusses the bleakness of many New Zealand novels....(pages 108/9) Over the next decade I wrote another four novels for Doubleday: Man of Straw, The... http://www.workreport.net/the-bleak-book/#comments http://www.workreport.net/the-bleak-book/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:43:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/joy-cowley/ In her book, Navigation: a Memoir, New Zealand writer, Joy Cowley, talks about when she and her husband were young parents. I'd read books on mothering and childcare, but instinct... http://www.workreport.net/joy-cowley/#comments http://www.workreport.net/joy-cowley/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:15:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/jim-wallis-writes/ Today's rather lengthy quote comes from the most recent editorial by Jim Wallis, of Sojourners. The article is called, The Disappearance of Compassionate Conservatives. Today Rick Perry condemns government help... http://www.workreport.net/jim-wallis-writes/#comments http://www.workreport.net/jim-wallis-writes/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:00:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/ebert-on-occupy/ Roger Ebert on the Occupy Movement: My hesitation all along has come with uneasiness about the Occupy tactics. The idea of physically occupying public spaces--parks, plazas, malls and so on--is... http://www.workreport.net/ebert-on-occupy/#comments http://www.workreport.net/ebert-on-occupy/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:25:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/postelection/ Jane Clifton writing in The New Zealand Listener on the state of things post-election: So the left Labour et al] has been far more successful at expanding its potential territory... http://www.workreport.net/postelection/#comments http://www.workreport.net/postelection/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:17:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/the-trope-teacher/ This is an extract from The Trope Teacher, the third of three novellas in Chaim Potok's book, Old Men at Midnight. I like this idea that Chandal, a novelist, states... http://www.workreport.net/the-trope-teacher/#comments http://www.workreport.net/the-trope-teacher/ Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:45:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/nz-elections/ Tomorrow we vote for the people we want to go into Parliament, here in New Zealand. Or rather, we try and vote them in. It's been a fairly messy few... http://www.workreport.net/nz-elections/#comments http://www.workreport.net/nz-elections/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:05:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/stephen-fry-rants/ Stephen Fry in full flight as he takes to task not only Ezra Pound but also the fruit of his thinking: modern 'free' verse: Ezra Pound, generally regarded as the... http://www.workreport.net/stephen-fry-rants/#comments http://www.workreport.net/stephen-fry-rants/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:59:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/on-creativity/ The following two quotes come from Steve Turner's book, Imagine, which I'm reading for the second or third time. (Re-reading books is something I'm doing more and more of: if... http://www.workreport.net/on-creativity/#comments http://www.workreport.net/on-creativity/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:24:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/dale-carnegie-quotes/ One of the ezines I get each week provided the following quotes from Dale Carnegie, whose book, How to Win Friends and Influence People is still a classic. Some people... http://www.workreport.net/dale-carnegie-quotes/#comments http://www.workreport.net/dale-carnegie-quotes/ Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:58:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/more-random-quotes/ More quotes from my collection David Lange - quoted in the Otago Daily Times, 16th June 1989 We are now starting to see something of the reverse envy that we... http://www.workreport.net/more-random-quotes/#comments http://www.workreport.net/more-random-quotes/ Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:13:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/denis-glover/ A quote on pre-war Auckland from Denis Glover, NZ poet - though not from one of his poems. I'm not sure if things have changed much. If there is one... http://www.workreport.net/denis-glover/#comments http://www.workreport.net/denis-glover/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:06:00 GMT http://www.workreport.net/strange-comparison/ From an article in The Independent entitled Mad about the boy. Responding to criticism of the new film , Nick Rodwell, the head of Moulinsart, the company that controls the... http://www.workreport.net/strange-comparison/#comments http://www.workreport.net/strange-comparison/ Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:02:00 GMT