Fear & Ego

In my last blog post, I wrote about the gift I received from my friend Corinne : “The Way of the Fearless Writer” by Beth Kempton. Though I truly want to read the book and start working on the exercises within, for some reason I am scared to even open the book.  Today, all I…

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Tea, Rain And A Good Book!

I sit at the window, a cup of tea by my side. The rain comes down in a soft whisper. It’s going to stay all day. It’s definitely not a day to wrack my brains on any task that requires a lot of effort. No, today is one of those “Let’s cuddle up with a…

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Tilting at windmills

A few days ago, I read a post by Sunil Bhandari on Substack. It was titled “Why I won’t protest”. His post reached somewhere deep within me and dragged out old memories of who I once was.  My mum used to teasingly call me “Don Quixote” and insisted that most of the time I was…

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I Am A Retired Mom!

My life changed irrevocably on the 29th of April, 1988.  I was just 23 years old and though I was aware that there would be changes, I didn’t realise they would be so drastic. In one day, I became an adult and a mother of twins. My pregnancy was not the easiest, but the reality…

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