I’m trying to be more positive. That’s a sentence that’s probably been written a million times (often as an intro to some thinly veiled complaining. Hopefully I don’t follow that route). I recently began reading Caitlin Moran’s collection of Essays, Moranthology. Towards the end of her introduction she wrote that her “underlying, abiding belief is …
Feeling Good
I checked my emails on my phone today because I was on the move. Now, for some reason my outlook email won’t sync properly with my HTC One so when I check my emails on my phone I actually have to go to the website via my phone’s internet browser. This morning, when I squinted …
Greed and Fear
A friend said to me the other day, every decision we is governed either by fear or greed (I’m taking greed to mean wanting something you don’t currently have, there’s nothing mean or miserly about it). It’s not hard for me to agree with this statement and when I reflect on my own life I’m …
Why do you do what you do?
As an aspiring writer and an Arts student people don’t always take me seriously (one uncle made the same joke every Christmas about rolling up my Arts degree to use as a telescope and find a job, a couple of engineers I went to high school with suggested I use it as toilet paper). Even …
