# family secrets (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover family secrets. Page: Feed: --- ## [Do You Talk to Your Pets?](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2026/03/do-you-talk-to-your-pets/) _2026-03-09 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ Do You Talk to Your Pets? Do you talk to your pets? Or even if you don’t talk to them, do you sometimes imagine yourself having conversations with them? Or perhaps you try to imagine what they’re thinking when they look at you or jump on you? We’ve got two cats, Jack and Meg, and I often imagine myself talking ...read more ## [What Are Your First Memories?](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2025/08/what-are-your-first-memories/) _2025-08-21 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ What Are Your First Memories? One of my memories is sitting on a beach, thinking it was too hot and I didn’t like sand! How can you write about that? One way is to just pick out those two words, ‘hot’ and ‘sand’ and repeat them. Like this: Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand. Hot ...read more ## [A Running Away Poem](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2025/02/a-running-away-poem/) _2025-02-13 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ A Running Away Poem This is part of a poem or narrative that I’ve written for some Year 11 dance students at a school in Cambridge. They’re going to devise a dance about Oscar and Rachel, who are my father’s uncle and aunt. While you’re reading this, you might want to imagine two people, one Oscar, one Rachel. They are ...read more ## [‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’…](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2024/09/thoughts-rather-than-poems/) _2024-09-12 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ ‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’… I’ve done a book called Pebbles (Smokestack Books). It’s made up of what we can call ‘thoughts’ rather than ‘poems’. What I tried to do was grab things that I heard saw remembered imagined and thought about. Each time I came up with something, I just wrote it down, often in ‘lines’ as you find in ...read more