Category: Not writing today because…

• Truth Hurts

  

  I’ve taken the long way around getting to writing this post. A new job, long-awaited, started back in spring last year. My instincts told me not to take it, that it was too good to be true, but I mistook them for fear and shouted them down. I have calibrated my self-listening skills since and…

  wordathlon

  October 18, 2019

  don’t come here to be convinced, Not writing today because…, Uncategorized, Writing

  breakdown, breakthrough, career, DIY, Dunbar beach, East Lothian, farewell bullshit, getting back up, getting still, home, instincts, journal, kitchen, learning, leave it to karma, Mental Health, mistakes, podcasting, self-actualisation, truth, truth hurts, twat

• Runaway Stories

  This time last year I was all geared up for a new job that was going to include part time writing- HURRAH!  Life goals securely on track!  And then….  SPLAT.  The company’s plans to set up a base in Edinburgh folded and I was in receipt of yet another email telling me my details would…

  wordathlon

  January 8, 2016

  don’t come here to be convinced, Not writing today because…

  Abraham Maslow, Amy Schumer, art, Creativity, don’t come here to be convinced, feminism, Girls, learning, Lena Dunham, life, literature, maslow, Maya Angelou, Mental Health, Philosophy, positivity, Psychology, rejection, runaway stories, self-actualisation, shit-lit, sorrynotsorry, stories, storytelling, tabloids, time, Trainwreck, work, writing

• Not writing today because…

  I’m not writing today because there are boots to buy for littler feet than mine. Emergency boots.  Oh-no-there’s-snow-and-she-only-fits-her-slidey-pumps-boots.  I watched her leave for the bus and almost covered my eyes with my hands, so sure she would slip any minute and be embarrassed to the ends of the earth and back again.  Everything is measured…

  wordathlon

  December 8, 2014

  Not writing today because…

  growing up, life, love, parenting, winter