Since we can't go anywhere right now, you'd have thought I'd have been all over my reading list in the last few weeks. Safe to say, I haven't been. I can be a terrible procrastinator, and with so much time on my hands, it's so easy to just "do it tomorrow". The fact that the [...]
I have officially lost track of time. As much as I've been trying to stick to a routine, dates kind of don't really matter anymore. Since my work plans and strategies have naturally been changed and moved about as we all figure out how best to respond to this whole situation, the normal deadlines have [...]
I haven't written one of these in a while, but since there's so much doom and gloom going round, I thought I'd revive "The Small Things" blogs. Obviously, we are all on lockdown. Which means there is a lot more time to appreciate the little things in life. And since it helps to put things [...]
It's no secret that we're living through a weird and scary and difficult time. And, whether you've suffered with mental health issues before or not, it's only natural to feel anxious, panicky, depressed, a bit mad, or whatever you're feeling. With the world on lockdown, and a completely unfamiliar situation on our hands, it's hard [...]
In case you didn't notice, the world has gone insane. Unless you've been living under a rock (and good on you, that's the sensible place to be) you'll know that all panic stations are a go and we are in the throes of a pandemic. Dramatic stuff. I know it's not technically day one of the coronavirus [...]
As this title would suggest, I'm about to talk about mental health. Because why shouldn't I? The recent and tragic death of Caroline Flack has got pretty much everyone talking about mental health issues and the impacts these can have on the lives, careers, relationships and everything in between of the people who suffer from [...]
It's official: January 2020 was the longest January on record and I refuse to believe that it was only 31 days long. But even so, it's given me time to read, so I guess I'm not really complaining. Especially because I reunited myself with my literary favourite, John Steinbeck. I started reading The Grapes of Wrath a few years [...]
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” During the process of Googling around for inspiration to kick off my new year resolution piece, I stumbled across this quote by Anaïs Nin. Needless to [...]
As you may or may not have noticed (depending on how much attention you pay), I haven't written anything in more or less a whole two months. Despite the fact that I promised myself I would write far more regularly than this. It's been playing on my mind a lot recently, as I see so [...]
It's time; a little book update has been long overdue, and the two books I've read recently deserve a little time in the limelight (small though it may be). My lovely new commute (by lovely, I mean it's an hour shorter than it used to be) has reinvigorated both my motivation and energy for reading [...]
