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Homelessness – Day 1
Homelessness is an interesting thing, really. Our perception of it is of people sleeping rough on the streets who have usually ended up there through a series of catastrophic events from abuse, mental illness or a financial breakdown. For many, homelessness is also about addiction – whether before the homelessness…
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Why I Blog
Why do I blog? Well, to be honest starting this blog was actually a mistake. I had only intended to set up a website, I got it wrong and ended up with a blogging site initially. I’ve resolved the website issue, but…I still have a blog! I have always been…
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My Last Online Search
The last thing I searched for online was a free Natal Chart for my mother. I had a rare couple of hours with her just this morning on our own. It’s rare because usually when I visit her, I am with my son and/or my stepfather is also in the…
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My Writing Process
I’ve been quiet on here recently because…I’ve made a breakthrough on my third, and final, book in my trilogy! So, I have been busy writing for the past few weeks and days to bring that to fruition. I had thought I had finished the book, I’d written The End and…
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The Divine Feminine
I have agonised over this blog all week. I was inspired to write something on this by something I saw on social media about the suppression of women in religion since Mary Magdalene. I researched, I wrote…and I realised I was going down a cul de sac with it. So…
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Happy Ever After
At the end of every good fairy tale and romance story there is either the explicit line or the implication of…’and they lived happily ever after’. I don’t know why but I have spent some time today musing on that. What does happily ever after actually mean? In the fairy…
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The Change I Would Like My Blog To Make
I had a completely different answer practically written to this prompt. And I have questioned why I am even responding to it. But, if you write a blog or any kind of writing really, aren’t you trying to make a change – or at least an impact – whether big…
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My Life In An Alternate Universe
Ooh, I love this. The idea of a life an alternate you is living in a different universe…all those things you wanted for yourself in this life but didn’t get or those things about yourself you don’t like…can all be changed into a different outcome. Hmmm… The first thing is…
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Uninteresting News Stories…
On the face of it, this writing prompt is easy – scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Well, frankly, there are tonnes of them. I really couldn’t care less about the winners of Love Island. I equally think Zendaya and Tom Holland should be allowed to walk their…
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30 Things That Make Me Happy
Okay, here goes on 30 things that make me happy, in no particular order just as they come to me: There we go, 30 things that make me happy. And there are more I can think of such as seeing the autumn leaves, walks in a forest, walks on a…
Louisa Simpson 