The prompt for the first week of March, 2026 in our Write Bravely group hosted by Corinne Rodrigues was: Turning Towards Spring. Spring calls forth new life, new plans, a cleansing of both homes and hearts what with spring cleaning happening and deep ponderings during the season of Lent, pulling us towards Easter. This is…
Read moreAnything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Today I wrote my morning pages after a long time… 13 days. I’m still feeling a bit uncomfortable about this, though. I mean, it fits into my day in one way, and it doesn’t in another. I like writing the pages. It makes me feel good. I want to write the pages, but I want…
Read moreA love letter to myself
This fortnight, one of the prompts on our Write Bravely group was to write a love letter to ourselves. “Easy Peasy,” I thought. After all how hard could it be, right? Wrong! It took me the whole of two days to even come up with a somewhat okay draft of what I really wanted to…
Read moreWriting Bravely: A Gentle Beginning to the Year
My daughter, Natasha, says that her new year starts in the second week of February because that is when she finally gets down to actually working on her goals. This year, I seem to be in the same boat. The beginning of the year was sluggish in terms of work. The Christmas hangover and a…
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