MY EXPERIENCE OF THE DREADED ‘WRITER’S FEAR’
I FEAR many things in my life. Some of them you’ll probably share with me. But what if I told you I was afraid of writing. What on earth would you make of that?
DO YOU RELY ON OTHERS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY?
AS a blogger, it’s hard not to think that you suck sometimes. That your work has little meaning. Or to put it bluntly… that it’s total and utter crap. I feel this way every couple of weeks at least. It’s a regular occurrence in my world. An old, familiar enemy.
YOU DO NOT OWE THE WORLD… YOUR NICENESS
YOU are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm. That’s a quote I came across the day. It is one that I wish I’d come up with myself. It is one that has stuck with me and not only that, but has definitely given me a bit of a jolt. It may sound crazy, a bit bonkers or even unbelievable to some of you reading
FIVE THINGS WOMEN DO NOT NEED…IN ORDER TO BE HAPPY
I DON’T know about you, but my life is FULL. Full to the brim of stuff I need to do, stuff I need to keep, stuff I want to have. Emotional stuff. Happy stuff. Dark stuff. To do lists. Little notes on bits of paper. Reminders. Dates. Torn out recipes I want to try one day. Internal memos. Dreams, hopes and desires. Life. Love. Work. Relationships. Motherhood. I’m exhausted just even
DO YOU CELEBRATE OTHER WOMEN?
TRUTHFULLY, hand on heart, do you? Or do you secretly envy other women or perhaps even despise them because they have something which you do not. Because you view their lives as being better than yours. Or because you view them as being better than you. Celebrating. Praising. Supporting. Loving. When it comes to other women, do you do these things? And if you do them a bit, or at
FOR ELSIE: ‘WHEN YOU SLEEP’
WHEN you sleep, I spend ages marvelling at your face. As it’s still the most beautiful I have ever seen. And I smile as my eyes gaze on the one tiny freckle that’s dotted on your forehead, a pretty reminder of the fun we had last year on holiday in the sunshine. When you sleep, I watch your chest rise and fall. And if your breathing becomes too quiet or
HOW GOOD IS YOUR ‘BOUNCE BACK’ ABILITY?
THE older I get, the more I’m beginning to realise that when it comes to life… You need to be a bit like a rubber ball. To deal with being thrown around. To handle being knocked off your feet. To launch yourself at your dreams and when you miss, to throw yourself at them, again. It’s all about bouncing back, isn’t it?
DO YOU REWARD YOURSELF? (AND IF NO, WHY?)
I’VE just blown a small fortune on this amazing pair of heels. I can’t really afford them in all honesty. So I probably ‘shouldn’t’ have bought them. But I did, because when I saw them, it felt like fate was calling. I’d just recorded a vlog about celebrating four years of blogging when an email landed in in my inbox. I clicked. It opened. And then I saw the shoes!