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 …
Putting the Personal into my Prose
I’ve started writing about me lately. An entirely thrilling topic to be sure, you may or may not have noticed, but it’s also odd and unfamiliar. Until now my writing had been along the lines of speculative short stories. They were sometimes funny, sometimes literary and they sometimes had talking dogs in them, but they …
I have issues how about you?
This one time, I was working in a shop and I recognised someone I’d gone to high school with come in. I was putting surplus stock under a table so was obscured from sight, but then… I ran out of stock. My next duty would be to stand and help customers, of which she was …
