To Climb or Not to Climb: Lessons from a Mountain
“You should write about this”, said my cousin as we were halfway up one of the rather steep mountains situated on the…
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Doing the thing (a story about procrastination in three parts)
On what was only day two of my working year, I found myself significantly leveling up on my ability to procrastinate. The…
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Lessons from a bracelet
This is my daughter’s bracelet. It comes in two parts, and they have been tangled for months. She had been fidgeting with…
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Bread and Roses
Men don’t tend to be asked about how they juggle work and family life. They generally don’t tend to bring it up…
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Future present
I love spending time in the future. Visualising where I want to be in six months’ time, twelve months’ time, five years’…
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The (un)bearable endlessness of things
When I was a child there used to be a house further down our road that was always in the process of…
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There’s always something
This morning I had to sort out an issue with my credit card. No big deal, easily resolved in the end, but…
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Don’t jinx it!
For years I was on quite a profound level convinced that if I visualised, or even thought about something I wanted in…
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Soda bread, energy and time. Musings on a Saturday morning.
It literally takes me less than five minutes to knock up a soda bread dough. This morning I had the bread ready…
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To batch cook or not to batch cook
I talk about cooking so much that I figured the topic might as well get its own blog post. I’ve always loved…