My birthday’s coming up this month, and I’m excited! I used to flirt with the idea of not liking birthdays, but I’m too much of a child at heart to not get excited at the prospect of fuss and cake and people telling me how much they love me. And I’d love nothing...
Writers have long made sense of the world through their writing. It’s how we synthesise things that are happening and how we put words around, and therefore make sense of, events that affect us. But what happens when there’s SO much happening that writing seems...
Writing a book seems to be all the rage right now, doesn’t it? With the rise of amazon kdp (Kindle direct publishing), being able to publish at the press of a button makes it seem like everyone’s hopping on the bandwagon and realising their dream to become an...
Hello, The last week’s felt like a bit of a shitfight, hasn’t it? Either you’re still reeling from the Week That Was in politics and wondering where all the decent people are… Or you’re wondering why there seem to be so many decent people and yet things are...
Hi. I need to tell you something important. It’s important for all of us. And it’s this: I woke up yesterday morning, the day after the US elected Trump as the next President, and I felt hope. Please don’t get me wrong. I really,...
