Rejection. We’ve all been there. No. No thanks. No thank you, your services are not needed. No, not YOU. Sorry, not today. I can’t make it to see you, I’ve got something else on. I don’t want to hang out doing your thing, I’m doingRead more…
11th May 2017 Middle-aged existential worries. “Perhaps the men of genius are the only true men. In all the history of the race there have been only a few thousand real men. And the rest of us – what are we? Teachable animals. Without theRead more…
Here is an article from the Guardian website that I stumbled upon, incidentally while researching “What to do when you can’t cope being a mother” (well, I’m sure we all have doubts) – http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/31/mothers-stop-moaning-about-motherhood Mothers – Stop Moaning About Motherhood. Right. * Crikey. I hadRead more…
Ever heard of ironic book titles? Here’s one. It’s called: What to Expect: the Toddler Years. How funny. Bet they laughed coming up with that one. It sits on my shelf staring back at me sanctimoniously; mocking me. Laughing at my woeful inexperience. Actually, noRead more…
Our love is so far away Our love is so far away now it’s like looking on another galaxy, And I feel sad it’s light years since we met; Acres of space apart from it now, Manifoldly distant, Otherworldly; Remotely, I note now just theRead more…
Musings of reality vs. fantasy as I start out and commence the heady world of self-employment, written back in 2006. Before me – literally – lay a blank, empty page. Rabbit-in-the-headlights stasis. Before I had a plan. (Do I now? – is the constant question.)Read more…
To celebrate what would have been my Granny’s 108th Birthday had she been alive today, 2nd April, I have decided it was time to write a little homage to her. Not necessarily as a grandmother, but as a woman. She was born in 1907Read more…
I think it was someone like film director James Cameron who was once quoted as saying, “People call me a perfectionist, but I’m not. I am a rightist. I do something until it is right, then I move on to the next thing.” Ha. IRead more…
Recently I happened to see two old figures from my past. Figures you could say I didn’t exactly ‘hit it off with’. When we see old blasts from the past it jogs our memory, makes us think about things. What our response was then. AndRead more…
How can you hope to know what to do with your hands, brain or spirit if you have no belief system, no goals, no mission, no idea of ‘WHAT IT IS I STAND FOR’? You need to draw something up! In my view and experienceRead more…
