Tag: 365posts2019

365 Days of blog prompts ~ “Quote me ~ Do you have a favourite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you?” “I decided many years ago to invent myself. I had obviously been invented by someone else – by a whole society – and I…

Once I kept a resolution about losing weight, but what I learned about other people’s attitudes to a woman losing weight made me resolve not to discuss losing weight on social media… Yesterday I wrote on this blog that I wasn’t making any resolutions because they usually end up as a Things Not Done list.…

For the first time in as long as I can remember, I struggled to get excited about Hogmanay, the Bells, and the New Year. Social media was full of positive posts brimming with hope, and I felt the pull to pretend, but I am committed to not people-pleasing, because I have done quite enough of…