Brian wasn’t good with other people’s stupidity. He’d roll his eyeballs on hearing they got tongue-tied trying to talk to a search engine. Brian knew the engines were now so clever they practically read your mind.
But some people still got stuck between thought and word. Brian himself had once asked the engine to find the “hook thing that looks like a question mark” and the engine located it in a jiff. So Brian’s advice to those who looked stumped by the engine’s empty grey strip was, “Tell it exactly what you’re thinking.”
I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love studios. I blog regularly and volunteer as a teaching assistant, coaching schoolchildren in aspects of journalism.
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