M is for Migraine (ugh)
This is my second A to Z challenge since I had ‘the incident,’ and this time last…
G for Goal-setting
When I first sat down to map out this A to Z of surviving, I didn’t initially…
C is for Cats
When all else fails, surviving involves my cats. These are my girls. What you can’t see is that if I’m on my worst days, they
Junk food and name changes
When I started writing on Substack, I had some grand ideas. Like…really hugely grand. Maybe outside of my league. Maybe it was something
C is for the catdate
Soooo…most years, I talk about the cats. Kushka, my Bengal who passed away just over 12 years ago, and the girls, Haley and Eiryss, we adopted the March after. Last year, I didn’t talk about them, I talked about challenges. And I got some messages asking how the girls were. It was also recently brought […]
Am I back? I think I am!
I’m not going to lie, that wasn’t the longest leave that I’ve been on, but it’s close. And I’m about to go out
#Kaiatus 2024 – May – ?
For many people, the term #Kaiatus is something that I’ve used, but I haven’t really explained, so I thought I’d explain it. At least a little. Kaiatus is my time off to work on everything I need to work on. A lot of the work I’m doing right now is to do with getting set […]
U is for Understanding
I started out writing as a fanfiction writer. For the longest time, though I had original characters, I would stick them in my favorite places and write with characters I knew about, to understand them more. I think a lot of writers start that way. But I also write fiction to understand people. Weird? Maybe.My […]
S is for singing and other music
I’ve been musical for as long as I can remember – always loved music. Mum says I was into classical music and rock as a small baby, and there’s NOTHING better than War of the Worlds, during a thunderstorm (though, I prefer the original musical, narrated by Richard Burton to the newer one with Liam Neeson). […]