Pondering Life – And how it relates to ongoing reading and writing in 2024
First and foremost: Happy New Year to all of you finding this little bit of prose. I hope you all have a great year ahead of you generally, and more especially if you are a reader or writer (or both) on Medium. I aim to be busy reading and writing this year, and hopefully that […]
The Wide Blue Ocean – Contained within a Bic pen
Somewhere or another, I once wrote that I bow down in reverence to my blue BIC pen. To many, that may have seemed like a trivialisation of values to suggest that a blue BIC pen should hold such importance in my life, but it does. I would describe the physical characteristics of the pen, such […]
Notes From Dispatches – ‘Welcome Week’
From tomorrow, I disappear down that rabbit hole known as university (again, as I join an MA programme in Creative Writing and Wellbeing), this time at the age of 65 years old). I have been wading through some of the bureaucracy in the last few weeks, signing my life away for the next 2 years, […]
Writing for Wellbeing – I take a step forward this week
This week, I was accepted on to an MA degree programme on Creative Writing and Wellbeing at Teesside University in the UK. This is not a subject that I am unfamiliar with, particularly as I have spent the last 6 years in a writing group for wellbeing, initially run expertly and independently in UK Bristol […]