Modern Adulting
There’s a recent trend of blaming your parents for everything that’s wrong with you, so I thought I’d look at modern adulting.
Ghosts of parallel lives
Just lately, I’ve been haunted by the ghosts of parallel lives. The choices my parents made which opened and closed opportunities, the ones I made, and those that were taken out of my hands.
Q1 2025 Review & Q2 2025 Plan
So. It looks like I didn’t get around to admitting I’d made a first quarter plan let alone making it public. But it also looks as though I haven’t made a plan since the first quarter of 2024.
Changing time zones
It’s the time of year when the clocks are changing time zones. Half the world moves to summer time, and the rest moves to winter.
Priorities and Posteriorities
I recently learned about the concept of posteriorities, though of course they’ve been around a lot longer than that.
A change is as good as a holiday
The other day I found myself saying a change is as good as a holiday, and then I wondered, is it really?
This Month’s Free Short Story
March’s free short story, Mr Fix-it, is quite appropriate given it seems almost everything I touched has either gone wrong or gone missing or both!
Light in the darkness
After a week of general rubbishness, a thought I saw the dimmest light in the darkness.
The man with the glass brain
I recently heard about a man with the glass brain – the only person in recorded history whose brain turned to glass.
Read an eBook Week 2025
Smashwords’ 16th Annual Read an eBook Week 2025 Super Sale is here!
2025 Winter Wardrobe Plan
Somewhere along the lines, I’ve managed to slip a year of wardrobe plans. Nonetheless, it’s time to look at my 2025 winter wardrobe plan.
Life Cycles
I’m a little bit sorry to say I’m one of those people who needs habits and routines to get through the day. Or to put it another way, life cycles.
Mystery Mouse
While I was out in the garden this morning I saw a mystery mouse cadaver. I’m not sure whether it was a a mouse or a rat.
No man is an island
The poet John Donne was also the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, and it was in this role he said “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…”
The good old days – a lamentation
It feels like every company on the planet wants a piece of me – more than I want to give them. Makes me miss the good old days.
No Ideas or Inspiration
Now and again, I pitch up to my desk to find my brain is mysteriously empty. No ideas or inspiration to be found.
Refining your goals
Today is January 30th. The year is 8% over. It’s time to think about refining your goals.
Saving not Spending
Christmas is over, the January sales are over, and credit card bills are starting to arrive. It’s time to start thinking about saving not spending.
Have fun
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing people say, “have fun.” Which is not the usual thing people say to each other. Or at least, not something I usually hear people say to each other.
5 ways to help save the environment
You may hold the opinion that it’s not your responsibility. But what serious effort have you seen Government or Business make to help save the environment?
Welcome 2025
As it turns out, 2024 was another version of 2023, so I welcome 2025 with open arms. Serves me right for saying it couldn’t be worse! Quick recap The usual tongue in cheek review of the last couple of years. Goodbye 2024 The 2024 horoscopes predicted government changes, and given there were a lot of…
Happy Holidays 2024
It’s that time again. Time to wish you Happy Holidays 2024. This year the whole season has caught me unaware.
The end of the year is nigh…
There are two weeks left until the end of the year. That’s two weeks to close out all those projects you had in mind as you started January. I have to say almost nothing I planned has come to fruition, and I admit to being disappointed by that. Though I wonder what it is that…
Memories and unpacking
We’ve moved back into the house, and I’ve been unpacking, and each box is full of memories as well as artifacts.
Small Business Saturday
Small Business Saturday is an event in November which takes place between the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales to encourage people to shop locally.
Quitting
Lately I’ve been thinking about quitting. In general, I’m the kind of person that just keeps moving on until the job is done.
2024 Transplantiversary
The last few months have been so busy I barely saw it coming, and now, all of a sudden, it’s my 2024 transplantiversary – my 13th!
Slow and steady wins the race
The other day, I watched all 36 strangely compelling minutes of a carpet cleaning video in which a man cleans a Persian Carpet, taking it slow and steady.
Planning for Chaos
The next four to eight weeks are going to be chaotic, with house finishing noise. So I wondered, how can I plan when I know there will be chaos?
Five stages of dog calling
This morning as we were walking Clever Girl, I heard a woman going through 5 stages of dog calling, and it occurred to me they’re quite similar to Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s stages of grief.