Apr 24, 2025 | blogging, rebellion, words, writing
[Content warning: mention of holocaust] I’ve written before about what to do about feeling like the world is burning around us. Through the beginnings of Trump’s US, of transcending terror, of how to get through when the world is rough, and some unedited rambling...
Mar 27, 2025 | blogging, creativity, rebellion, words, writing
The struggle to write your book while the world feels like it’s spinning out of control is real. How can you take time to get your writing done, your book finished, your published book out there with your name on it when everything’s on fire? The answer is to...
Oct 29, 2024 | blogging, creativity, writing
Oh October. You sly, sneaky little month. Just hanging out like “nothing to see here, it’s just me. Just your friend October.” We’re in between the extremes: not quite summer in the southern hemi, not quite winter in the north. Just an in between sort of vibe. And...
Sep 12, 2013 | blogging, creativity
If you’re blogging, you’ll know this already: keeping readers interested is like a sustained burlesque striptease. Reveal a bit, hide behind a fan. Reveal some more, shimmy! I’m an ex-dancer (not like an ex-parrot though), but I was never any good at...
Feb 11, 2013 | blogging, writing
I recently read a Facebook status update from my brother-in-law. He’s a fellow wordy type and his update read: Blogging is not writing, it’s graffiti with punctuation. Hmm. Interesting, I thought. I blog. It’s brought up some thoughts for me in the...
