Here’s the plot of a speculative fiction book I’d like to read: in the future, the Earth has become more and more polluted and humanity has put it up for…
Meri, Meri, quite contreri
Category: Personal & Family Life
I like that quote so frequently repeated by productivity gurus: The moment one definitely commits oneself, Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do,…
We’ve had such a slew of bad nights again – without my posts from last week the memory of good nights would already have faded from my frazzled mind. I…
Years ago, in my fundamentalist Christian days, I wanted to try fasting for a meaningful length of time. I think I did five days of just water and chewing gum.…
It wasn’t the heat that stole my sleep last night, but the baby’s stomach bug! Life finds a way. This morning I found the foam cover of an earbud in…
This week brings an unwanted gift of hot air (literal hot air) from the continent. I’m confident that the days will be just about bearable, but have a lot of…
If my face keeps changing at the same rate, in 45 years I will be 100% different-looking.
My third Full Focus Planner arrived yesterday. It’s time to acknowledge that I’m into planners.
Total revamp always sounds so appealing: start afresh! ‘Thinking it through’. First principles. And so on and so forth.
My mother has offered to sew me a dress. It will be a kind of long-sleeved tunic dress, boxy fit, very Nordic, very no-nonsense. Last night I was trawling through…