Procrastination Busting – How to break the dam we have built

I wrote recently about planning and avoiding distractions, here, but it is not the only hurdle to overcome when we are trying to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). Having got past one hurdle, we might come across another one that many of us have faced in the past, which is procrastination. Despite recognising […]

That Was The Week – Beginning on 7 October 2024

Every so often, I question whether I am using the best tools for the job (of writing), and none more often than when it comes to journaling. For me, a writer for wellbeing, the backbone of what I do centres around journalling. Whilst I engage in other forms of writing, this is the one that […]

Renewed, Refreshed, Replenished – Leaving summer break behind

Here I stand at the beginning of a new academic year, ready for all that it might bring. I see it as the opportunity to renew learning, and to remind myself of positions I might choose to adopt when it comes to writing, and how I interact with the world. In that respect, I am […]

Writing for Wellbeing – Helps me become a better human

I can run for miles and miles across the stretching sands of a lonely beach, and take-off up into the sky, soaring to great heights, floating for an eternity on the updraft. I can explore in every direction and live the lives I missed the first time around, be the person I never really wanted to […]

Thinking About Writing for Wellbeing – And what it means to me

Wellbeing is something that can be difficult to define exactly as it is so subjective, but I think it is safe to say that it revolves somewhere around the ideas that any individual might have relating to their best possible health and contentment at any given point in time. In itself, that is a bit […]

Pondering Life – And how it relates to ongoing reading and writing in 2024

First and foremost: Happy New Year to all of you finding this little bit of prose. I hope you all have a great year ahead of you generally, and more especially if you are a reader or writer (or both) on Medium. I aim to be busy reading and writing this year, and hopefully that […]

The Wide Blue Ocean – Contained within a Bic pen

Somewhere or another, I once wrote that I bow down in reverence to my blue BIC pen. To many, that may have seemed like a trivialisation of values to suggest that a blue BIC pen should hold such importance in my life, but it does. I would describe the physical characteristics of the pen, such […]

Notes From Dispatches – ‘Welcome Week’

From tomorrow, I disappear down that rabbit hole known as university (again, as I join an MA programme in Creative Writing and Wellbeing), this time at the age of 65 years old). I have been wading through some of the bureaucracy in the last few weeks, signing my life away for the next 2 years, […]

Writing for Wellbeing – I take a step forward this week

This week, I was accepted on to an MA degree programme on Creative Writing and Wellbeing at Teesside University in the UK. This is not a subject that I am unfamiliar with, particularly as I have spent the last 6 years in a writing group for wellbeing, initially run expertly and independently in UK Bristol […]

Dear Bullies – Open letter to the bullies I have had in my life

Dear Bullies You have been many in my life, some of you have beaten me, sometimes because I was the smallest, and easy to pick on, other times because I was the one who couldn’t run away (because I had no breath to do so), many times for not supporting your football team — worse still, for […]