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Oops! Blog Back up and Running
For those of you who may have had issues accessing my blog, I hugely apologise! It seems that the server just needed a good reboot (as do we all sometimes).The site is now back up and running. Thank you for following me, and look forward to more content coming soon.
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7 Easy Home Resets for a Brighter Morning
How many times have you woken up, entered your kitchen, and been greeted by a greasy pile of pots and plates? There’s crumbs still on the counters, and a weird gone-off smell is coming from somewhere. Ignoring the mess for later, you make yourself a coffee and walk into the living room, only to trip over your son’s lego ice-cream truck, and you don’t even know where to start looking for the TV remote. Throw cushions are crushed and strewn over the sofa, and the coffee table is covered in random papers, a colouring your child did, and a phone charger. Oh, and there’s something pink and sticky in the…
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Why I Write
Photo by Dyu – Ha on Unsplash I could be incredibly vague and say I write because I love it. And while that’s true, for me, there’s so much more than that. I love the way words play, with infinite possibility and combinations. The stories they can tell, the emotions they can evoke, the worlds they can create, the lessons they can impart. Isn’t that what creation is all about? Aside from writing being one of the few things I consider myself good at, written words are also the perfect vessel for me to make sense of the chaos crashing around my head; to construct the shattered memories and feelings…
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How I Kicked Writer’s Doubt in the Ass (With Minimalism As My Weapon)
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember. As a child in the early nineties, my parents bought me a typewriter with tall keys you had to fight to make the letters print on the paper. I loved practicing writing on that thing, and the feedback from the keys felt glorious. There was nothing quite like manually turning the paper and seeing the paper rise with words as I typed up a storm. Later, they bought me an electronic one where you could install a tippex ink ribbon to undo mistakes. Because the keyboard worked just like a laptop keyboard, there…
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Dealing with Clutter at the Roots
Photo by Ben Neale on Unsplash Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting out into the Great British weather and, with the help of my mum, obliterating a jungle of weeds in my overgrown driveway. Not only do I feel the results of a great workout, I see my front yard getting better and better with each passing day. It’s such an exhilarating and satisfying feeling that I’ve vowed to never again let it become a tangle of hidden rubbish and weeds. As the mountain of uprooted weeds towered behind me, I was reminded of the first time I decluttered my home; the feeling of lightness, the satisfaction, and…
Minimalist Thinking, Maximum Living
