Dystopian inconvenience
Recent events, a lot of life disruption, the frustrating process of home insurance and fighting my way through dystopian visions
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Category: Writing
Goals
I’m looking at a vision board I created 2-3 years ago and reviewing what I put on it. This post is also about goals and planning more broadly, and not quite knowing what to do next. Continue reading Goals
Living apart together
Legend has it that Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived in two interconnected houses. So did Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton. These examples of keeping separate living space as a couple make it seem like an eccentric, artistic lifestyle choice. Yet so many women I know desperately want their own space (whilst also often wanting to be in relationships). It’s not surprising that a … Continue reading Living apart together
Communal living
I haven’t written much lately. Lots of things are half-written, half-read and half-thought. The end of 2020 and start of 2021 blurred into one confusing block of time, which has now passed. I had reached the point where anxiety affected me physically. Stomach pain, leg cramps, awake each day at 3am in panic, frantically googling symptoms. Living in a fog of tiredness, yet on high … Continue reading Communal living
A part of the list
Sometimes it’s good to make lists. One day this year I started scribbling ‘Things I will do when this is over’. It’s a random assortment that might resonate with others. Also, I want to make sure I don’t forget. 1. Take a DIY course My flat has patio doors which never fitted correctly. It’s a long story. One of those annoying problems that I was … Continue reading A part of the list
Manoeuvres
It’s December and I’m wearing my leather gloves as the temperature is dropping. I was wearing them constantly in March. For a while they felt like my armour against the fearful global climate. It was a bewildering time and I’m not sure if that time has ended. We block out stressful periods so I remember only snapshots from earlier in the year. The eery feeling … Continue reading Manoeuvres
Print is alive
I had dreams of working in the publishing industry and it turned out to be different from how I imagined it. From 2007 to 2018 I worked in b2b publishing, at a company that used to publish over 100 magazines. It was a chaotic time for print media. ‘Print is dead!’ everyone said. The writing was on the wall. People were buying magazines less and … Continue reading Print is alive
Why I am writing
I’ve been writing since I was a child. I have the excruciating teenage diary to prove it (apparently started when I was 11). It wasn’t designed for public consumption of course. Well maybe on the first few pages I was copying The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole or one of the other much loved fictional diaries I read. But it quickly descended into the unadulterated … Continue reading Why I am writing