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Oddly

What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? I find that the things that would scare me are also things I don’t feel the need to do. My husband once tried to persuade me to go skiing. I don’t like heights and I’m not fondContinueContinue reading “Oddly”

Sometimes

SometimesThe fear is like a living thingMoving inside meTrying to take me overAnd make me not meI’ve learned thoughThat it is an imposterAnd if I findSomething beautiful to think aboutThe fear will be pushed outAnd happier thoughts will take its placeThen I will be creatingThe future I wantNot the future I fearAnd those thoughts willContinueContinue reading “Sometimes”

Humanity

What do you complain about the most? There is only one race on this Earth, humanity. We have the same problems, the same fears, the same needs. Yet we take so much pride in being right, in insulting people of other races, claiming we’re victims of prejudice and constantly insulting people of other colours, anotherContinueContinue reading “Humanity”

A Million Things

I thought I needed a million thingsIn order to be happyA million poundsAll the shoes and chocolate in the worldTo go everywhereTo experience everythingTo have lots of friendsTo have the perfect face and figurePerfect healthSeveral carsSeveral housesMaybe a helicopter and a private planeThen I woke up one morningNothing had changedBut I was happyAnd all wasContinueContinue reading “A Million Things”

Backward Looking Forward Thinking

We all think about the past. Many of us hold on to aspects of the past. Some of those things are worth remembering, some are not. Try telling your mind not to think about the things that aren’t worth recalling and on a good day it will behave, on a difficult one it won’t. Particularly if you haven’t beenContinueContinue reading “Backward Looking Forward Thinking”

What a Racket

What are your favorite sports to watch and play? Badminton is the only sport I play. I used to do martial arts which is kind of a sport and is great for fitness and confidence, and some versions are in the Olympics. I enjoy watching Rugby. I did get enthusiastic about the England women’s footballContinueContinue reading “What a Racket”

Sit Still

What would you do if you won the lottery? I once came into a little money after a divorce. It seemed like enough to keep me secure for life. It was gone in two years. A friend came into the same amount of money for the same reason, we warned her, she laughed, same thingContinueContinue reading “Sit Still”

All the Books

What books do you want to read? Theoretically. In fact the advent of portable technology has ruined me. I’m endlessly nosy, not into other people’s business, that’s rarely more interesting than mine, but into what’s going on in the world. I start reading something on a news site, then there’s something even more interesting, andContinueContinue reading “All the Books”

Dear Future Huge Fan Base

I am so excited to be bringing to you my own brand of self-help, which has a strong focus on the ridiculousness of life. I’m utterly determined in life only to take the serious seriously, and to laugh as much as I can at the rest. Public health warning My dear friend Deb is currentlyContinueContinue reading “Dear Future Huge Fan Base”

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Write about a few of your favorite family traditions. We didn’t have any family traditions unless you consider falling out on a regular basis to be a tradition That went back at least to my grandmother’s generation and impacted down to mine. My mum once blazed my generation for it, and asking her how IContinueContinue reading “Complete blank”