14 Jul For the summer holidays: Learning how to slow down.
I went to see my Nan yesterday. Nan is 95 and has lung cancer. She is pleased to know she will soon be leaving this planet and has wanted the...
01 Jul On realising I don’t always know best.
Some weeks I have a phrase that hovers around me no matter what I am doing. This has been one of those weeks. And the words have been: On Tuesday they got...
27 Jun How to be Creative. Part 3: Start at the beginning.
As Maria sang in the film The Sound of Music, 'Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start'. In fact, it is the only place to start. The only way to start. With...
24 Jun 23rd June: A poem for today.
As I drove back from dropping the kids at school today this poem floated down to meet me. I feel confused about the decision our country has made today, and it...
21 Jun How to be Creative.Part 2: Exposing the lie that will stop you before you begin.
This writing lark is relatively new to me. For the past fifteen years, for better or worse, between pregnancies and breast-feeding, I have been trying to form a career as...
14 Jun How to be Creative. Part 1: You already are.
Everyone is creative. Fact. You might not think you are, but I can assure you, you are. Maybe you have believed that creativity was only for a chosen few, and you didn't fit...
27 May The path to golden time.
Edward, my seven year old, told me this morning he didn't want to go to school. I pointed out that today is Friday, his favourite day of the week, the...
20 May The good friend is the person who can be vulnerable
My final conversation for Mental Health Awareness Week is with my good friend Laura. I have known Laura for about ten years...
18 May What has it been like, living with me? (A conversation with my husband).
The second conversation I have recorded this week for Mental Health Awareness Week is with my husband. Matt and I met when I was 16. We started dating when I was...