Creativity & Focus

A few weeks back I watched David Sedaris' Master Class, and realised I'd been walking on autopilot for quite some time. I love observational humour, of which Sedaris is a master, and had been struggling with what to write for this blog. I wrote myself a little reminder; 'observe & write! Details!'. Sedaris' witty, brutal …

Keeping up with, yourself

My computer seems to be have pieces of writing and endless bullet points of ideas coming out of every nook and cranny. The problem is, just like many a creative, I forget about it and start writing something else. I'm what you call a starter, an ideas machine, not a completer-finisher. Hence this new post. …

Forcing the fun in 2021

You know that feeling you get when someone asks if you wanna go somewhere but all you want to do is sit and watch repeats of a show you once loved and doze off? Well I felt this so strongly on Sunday that I was very tempted not to go to the beach. I'd been …

Town and Country (well, the park)

As I start my daily walk, I press play on Spotify and listen to Armchair Expert talk to Michael Moss, the Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist who's written two books about the fast food industry and the lengths these companies go to, to get us to buy their products. I'm angry at the people whose job …