Alastair Johnston

Zecharia, Jesuits, Lions and an Antidote for the Overthinker

Luke chapter 1. Zecharia is in the temple and an angel appears. The angel says to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your...

The tarmac had been covered in a slick of aviation oil. Sitting on top of this was a thin sheen of water. My car had...

There's something to be said for owning a dog. The need to go out every day with your four-legged friend, come rain or shine, hot...

Attached to my door was a black and white picture of a blonde woman in full song. The ragged edge down the long side betrayed...

My work is made by a human for humans. Nothing on my website, none of the text or images have been created or developed using...

I thought that I had missed them. For the first time in many, many years. I’d been distracted, pulled away by the human world. A...

I needed to have a better way to retrieve useful information from my handwritten scrawls. A way that I could sit in a meeting, writing...

You can blame Anne Lamott for this mashup. Bird by Bird is one of those books that I have seen recommended by so many writers...

Robert Wringham is on to something. A few months ago he re-started a magazine, in paper form, via a Kickstarter. I decided to back it,...

How can you fit a number of months into a two-page calendar spread whilst still keeping things legible? Although I use a variety of future...

8:00am, we stepped out of the front door onto the street. As we reached the corner shop a bemused African lady stopped, smiled and then...

The body was lying on its side, almost as if placed into the recovery position. Near to the blackthorn hedge at the second to bottom...