Musings :: Moments :: Memories
I didn’t expect this liminal stage to last quite so long. I thought I’d leave teaching, take some time to reset, and then move on to the next step with a clear plan and a fresh burst of energy. But here I am, 18 months later, still somewhere in the middle. Once I got a… Continue reading The Space Between
March has been a busy month. I started the month with a little March Bingo challenge—where I aimed to tick off a variety of experiences and small adventures. I came so close to a full house, but one square remains unchecked: a visit to the Lord Leycester Hospital. Not for lack of enthusiasm, mind you,… Continue reading March Reflections
Last night I managed to finish Chapter One in my new middle-grade fiction chapter book. It is a real milestone because although I have only written almost 3,000 words - just a tenth of the word count for my abandoned novel - it feels like real progress as I am following a solid plan. As… Continue reading Project Hazel: Chapter One finished
February has felt like a strange mix of momentum and stillness—a month of small achievements and moments of quiet, of pushing forward but also needing to pause. It started with a bit of a wake-up call regarding my health, which spurred me into action. The idea of becoming more active initially felt like a chore,… Continue reading February Reflections
Thanks to starting the Couch to 5K course with Writers' HQ and finding my writing buddy, Elizabeth, I’m back to writing. In addition to meeting weekly with Elizabeth on Google Meets, I am taking a live Plotstormers Lite course to help plot out my new children’s story. Last week, I write the 'elevator pitch' (in… Continue reading Plotting
One of my 25 in 2025 things was to create a writing routine that worked for me as well as to find an accountability partner or writing buddy that was also needs support to write. I started the Writers' HQ course called Couch to 5K Words which aims to get you writing 5,000 words in… Continue reading Writing Buddy
We refined my new reading spot over the weekend with a chair which is actually comfortable to sit in and so I spent a few minutes there enjoying the new space, reading an old journal. I have so many journals which have just the first 10-20 pages with writing and I was thinking I should… Continue reading Time travel
The beginning of the year always seems to feel like a non-fiction kind of time for reading. I have physical copies of all the following books which will also support my reading goal of reading 40 physical books in 2025. The Plan by Kendra Adachi - this book on time management has been written for… Continue reading Five Non-Fiction Books for 2025
Happy new year! It has been a rather muted start to the year. Life is a bit slower than usual. It is going to be tricky to get us all back into the swing of normal life as we have settled rather nicely into the easy mornings and late nights of the Christmas period. Over… Continue reading Hello 2025
I read 46 books last year. This means I did not meet my 50 book challenge target but I am really happy with this number nonetheless. I have updated my Reading Challenge page so you can see what I read last year. Here are my top ten books for 2023: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross… Continue reading Reading in 2023
Notes From My Day 