If Not This, Then What?

What will it take for you to listen to yourself if a pandemic won’t do it? My first reaction of rage when I saw that everything was about to slow right down, turned quickly to silence. If not this, then what? My barely-started novel was still sitting there from when I got back from travelling […]
Happy Christmas!!

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Unease it was stirring in me and my spouse;
The stockings misplaced, the chimney was bare,
We knew that we had them just couldn’t place where;
The children were jumping with joy on the beds,
With visions of Lego built up in their heads;
The Discovery

I woke up Monday morning in a muddle and a sweat There was something I’d forgotten that I couldn’t place just yet We’d won the pitch on Friday, we’d celebrated hard I’d remembered our anniversary, I’d even bought a card I’d written the presentation for the latest client brief I’d made the kids’ appointments for their […]