Okay, up above these words in the menu bar, there’s a page called Contact Us, and we’re beginning to believe that it’s more trouble than it’s worth.  In fact, we’re beginning to think we should get rid of it altogether, and we’re coming round to the view...

Hello 7 Reasons readers!  It’s Marc here and today, dear readers, we would like you to make a cake.  This cake.It’s Oxfam’s Easy Lime and Ginger Cheesecake, the recipe for which comes from my local Oxfam Bookshop’s brilliant blog .  The recipe calls for...

Last week, 7 Reasons took a step backward.  We went back in time to the antediluvian age of print when our words  - if not our names – appeared in Esquire magazine.  How can we top that, we wondered.  The present will just seem humdrum now.  So we decided...

It’s almost as if every other day of the week leads up to this. Sunday! But enough of that, let’s get to business, you have wrapping to do. The second most important thing this week concerns the ongoing Wikileaks shebang. Here at 7 Reasons we are nervous...

A long, long time ago, way back in the mists of 7 Reasons(.org) history, Jon promised that there would be badges for guest posters, and Marc rolled his eyes and said, “SHH!  You’ll bankrupt us before we’ve even started.”   But now, many months –...

Whether you’re a blogger, a journalist, a novelist, a playwright or a poet, writer’s block can be both debilitating and frustrating.  Here are seven reasons why. 1.  Because You Call Yourself A Writer.  I sometimes call myself a writer.  Mostly because that’s...

Hello!  It’s Sunday again and here’s part two in an occasional series that takes you behind the scenes of 7 Reasons.  How You Found Us gives you, the reader, a glimpse into something usually only seen by us, the people who know the password, into the ways...

Visitors mean a lot to websites.  Visitors are their oxygen. We are no different. At 7 Reasons we like to breath. And we’re not doing too badly on that account, thanks for asking. In the past seven days thousands of people have popped by, either because they are...

1. It’s All In The Name. Half the people commenting on this story don’t even know who Tiger Woods is. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen his name written Tiger Wood or Tiger Wood’s. There are two things that really annoy me in...

Sometimes at 7 Reasons(.org), we like to look at what other people are writing, especially when they’re using the same format as we are.  We were delighted to find this piece by Carol Tice via Twitter.  We were even more delighted when she agreed that we could...