To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part… No doubt you recognise those timeless words. Perhaps you recited them at your wedding, or heard them recited at someone else’s wedding. But [...]
Category: A Writer’s Life
PARADISE REGAINED
For those of you who read my last blog post about the tragedy of my beloved piano, I have a happy update. 😊 Yes, paradise has indeed been regained! Thank you, Sir Milton, for lending me those pertinent words, even if they are almost four hundred years old. And talking of pertinent words from the [...]
LIVING WITHOUT YOU
Probably everyone who’s reading this post will have experienced some kind of loss by now, whether it be for a beloved pet, a close relative, a friend, a partner, or another type of loss entirely. Like everything in life, there are various gradations of sorrow. I was eighteen when my grandmother died. It was a [...]
How to Elevate-Pitch Your Life
Having just finished an inspiring course on “The Literary Agent” with Curtis Brown Creative (CBC), my heart is singing with elevator pitches! Have you heard of those things? You haven’t? Honestly? But … I mean, how can anyone live their whole life without an elevator pitch? I’m being serious here. Okay, more on the pesky [...]
A Life Imperfectly Lived – ‘Lessons’ by Ian McEwan
Bollocks to New Year’s Resolutions!
‘Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal.’ I came across those words while reading Ian McEwan’s latest novel, ‘Lessons’, and they lifted my mid-winter spirits astronomically. Why? Because keeping a journal is at least one New Year’s Resolution I don’t have to worry about, seeing as I’ve [...]
Halloween – there and then; here and now
Here we are again. Another October, with russet-golden leaves coating pavements, parks, avenues and riverside walks in mellow autumn hues. Sunday, October 29th. That’s today. The clocks have just gone back, and the scary-creepy-scary day is almost upon us. The fancy dress party day. The horror movie-watching day. Scream day. Yup, it’s Halloween time again! [...]