HIRAETH

When I was a child I would love nothing more than to play in my bedroom and pretend I was a teacher. I would make a list in my notebook...

An interesting thing has happened in retirement life as I have all this spare time on my hands. Well that may be a half truth as I seem...

It has been the season of nostalgia for me as I have been in a reflective mood of late and this glorious summer made me feel like I was...

I know more about what I am than who I am. I have been undertaking some writing for the soul each day and enjoying the process of writing...

Who are we when no one is looking, when we don't have to have on our public image. How do we marry the image and ideal of what we want to...

Music - a constant source of the background to life itself. Whilst doing some writing research I came to this awareness that throughout...

Do you ever have those moments in life where you come to this strange realisation that you may be deluded ? or maybe you just think...

I have not taken the time to write for such a long time. This chapter of my life is now closing and I am happy to spend my days in the...

I have been doing lots of walking lately as I step into my unbusy life. I walk without any fear through all the familiar back tracks and...

Todays writing prompt is a real challenge. When thinking of the themes in my life do I think of the constants ? Do I consider the threads...

Todays writing prompt - If you had twenty minutes left to live, how would YOU spend that time? This writing prompt is an interesting...

What a strange writing prompt I thought as I pulled out todays random card. There is so many directions I could take this, you have the...

So that would have to be todays writing prompt to one of the most risk averse people around, but it is a good question thou, so time to...

I have been practicing really hard to stop watching the clock. I never realised just how time management focussed I have spent the last...

I wrote this piece in the September of 2016 , one of the many scraps of writing I had at the time that would eventually become my book...

Today is the eighth anniversary of my mum's passing. This day comes with much reflections and sadness, but in all honesty many days are...

It is strange what breaks us in the end, the thing that sends the held back flood gates of tears flowing. It has been a long 20 months for...

It caught my eye in the local newsagent - the beautiful soft leather diary 2022 stamped in gold across the top. It is one of my many...

In creating the new me I discovered I kind of liked the old one - it was safer . Like most people I started the year off with new goals,...

That is what all the new age , self help gurus would tell us . Easier said than done . However it is this years new challenge as I line...