This blog post is in response to the promt on our Write Bravely Writing Circle group. The prompt for the first week of July is “Where in your life are you craving steadiness right now?” As twilight settles in, pinned with a thousand stars, my heart and mind begin their familiar dance of dissatisfaction. I…
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 moreI Hate the Human Race, But I Don’t Hate All Humans
There are days I want to scream. Days I feel so alien in this world that I wonder if I was ever meant to be part of this species at all. Because if the human race is what we’ve become, then I want no part of it. Let me be clear—I don’t hate all humans….
Read moreMatheran Magic : A Writing Retreat.
Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, my daughter told me that while I was an excellent writer, I was an even better teacher. Of course this hurt me at the time as I have dreamed of being a writer since I was a kid. It took me a while to realise…
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