On the 1st January, I embarked on a creative challenge. To post something every day, whether a photo, a sentence, or a doodle. I was planning to keep this up for the whole year. I even kept it up during a challenging and busy couple of months at work, posting late at night. And then…
So 2015 is about to come to an end. It was an odd one for me, starting with recovery from an operation, which took much longer than I could ever have anticipated. And when I did get back to a sense of normality, I chose to take a job for the first time in over…
This week I went to see Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic, being interviewed in London. I went with a group of about 15 other women, many of whom I’d met before, all of us connected in some way through Marianne Cantwell‘s courses. Liz was asked about her new book Big…
Written while on a plane, just got round to posting…. So I haven’t written a blog post in a while. Just the creative snippets which I enjoy finding in the corners of my brain. But I’ve been reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” and was inspired to write a longer…
Goodbye to today. Today is gone, today is no more. I have checked out, I have left my hotel key at reception. Today no longer holds my interest, it’s time for a new start again. The beauty of tomorrow is that it’s always there, waiting in the wings, waiting to save us from ourselves. We…
3 years ago I started writing creative snippets and publishing them on a blog. However in the last 18 months or so while self-employed, I’ve been side tracked by writing longer blog posts on life, the universe and everything. As I’ve now started a full-time, permanent job which is very busy, I don’t have the…
You may or may not have noticed my absence. It’s only been a few weeks, but having got into the habit of blogging regularly I do notice that I haven’t posted anything in a while. I’ve got a job now (I was self-employed for 18 months and doing part-time contracts before that) and I’m still…
I read an article recently about a woman who gave up a well-paid job in New York to go and live on an island in the Caribbean, and now works as a barmaid there. And the thing that struck me most about the article was the reason she said she did it – to change…
Right back at the beginning of my freelancing adventure, I wrote a blog post about the weird and wonderful things about freelancing and self-employment in general. For the last 18 months I’ve been working from home doing freelance work for communications agencies and I have been doing some consultancy with small/micro business clients as well.…
I went to see a couple of exhibitions at the Tate Modern last week. Both exhibitions (Marlene Dumas and Sonia Delaunay) looked at the artist’s work across their career, noting significant points in their own lives and describing some of the events happening around them in the world at the time. And after seeing them I…
This blog has gone through several phases in its life. Its recent reincarnation happened at a time when I was sitting around at home recovering from an operation, with a lot of time on my hands to think and to write. And the posts got a bit more philosophical and felt a bit more personal.…
I wrote a To Do list earlier this week, of nice things I want to do with my time over the next couple of weeks. On my list was “visit Keukenhof”, because I have never been there. It’s a garden near Amsterdam where every year they create a display of all the colours of flowers…
I was reading a blog post by fellow CBWM participant Soozi Baggs, about procrastination and resistance, and it made me think. She talks about those blog posts that get written and edited and played around with, but never quite get to be published. And I realised I have quite a few of those loitering around…
Yesterday I was grumpy. I won’t go into that right now, although I’m sure there’s a blog post or two in there. At the end of the day when I was cooking dinner, I thought back on all the hours of that day, looking for good things in amongst the stuff that got me down.…
I came across a question yesterday in a Facebook group I belong to, and it inspired me to share my tips for making ideas happen. As someone who has lots of ideas and many projects and freelance work activities on the go at once, I’ve had to adapt my corporate ways into self-employed systems that…
Sometimes I do wonder what the point is of blogging. It does often feel like I’m talking to myself. I have noticed that the more frequently I blog, the more people interact with me, and the more motivated I am to continue blogging. But if I don’t blog very much, nobody seems to notice. The…
So, it’s now officially spring again. The clocks have gone forwards, and the evenings will start to get lighter. Animals are coming out of hibernation, yawning and stretching, and limbering up for a bit of running around being frisky. The flowers are following the lead of the daffodils and crocuses and poking their heads out…
I’m feeling a little under the weather this week with a nasty cold, so I thought I’d share one of my favourite quotes instead of writing a whole blog post. I remember coming across this when reading about Robin Williams after his death last year, and being drawn to it.
A weird thing happened to me the other day. For a few hours I had nothing to worry about, nothing to mull over in my mind. It was an odd feeling. Kind of nice. But strange. The thing I’d been worrying about for a few weeks had moved on to a new phase, into The…
A while ago I wrote a post about why I’m embarrassed to share my blog. And in fact I was talking to someone I know in real life about this a few weeks ago – how it’s one thing to write stuff and publish it online for complete strangers to read, but yet another for…
