It’s Valentine’s Day this week, but I have never seen much point to it other than having an excuse to eat more chocolate until this year. I’ve had number of long time dreams coming into alignment in my life at last and I found myself full of grateful love for the many people who have …
Walk in the Footsteps of Giants: A Short Drabble from the Stormy Inn Series
I moved over the weekend and have numerous creative projects and challenges on the go. I’m living next to the ocean now and all I can think about is imagery and stories with water involved. Nonetheless, here’s another excerpt from my tales from the Inn of Stormy Nights. Walk in The Footsteps The wind blew …
The Great Writing Debate: Inspired or Chair?
The Great Debate: (or one of them anyway) The people who always say “butt in chair” in order to get your stories written are not wrong. The people who always say “inspiration makes your work shine” in order to write quality stories are not wrong. Both have good points that I feel we often lose …
Sidewalks and Roads and How We Walk
Follow the Road and Who Knows Where is Goes My favourite quotes in life usually involve streets, crossroads, some sort of long straight or winding road. My favourite songs often involve roads literally or figuratively to, The Highwayman by Loreena McKennit (also a poem), Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas, Carry on by .fun, …
Visit London: Learning London City With Lists and Food
Learning London City Day One Breakfast, tentative, tiptoing into a corner of the chatting room. I toasted bread, find peanut butter and quirk a first smile. I will spend the next two years oscillating between amusement and exasperation that the British understanding of peanut butter is full of sugar and very little of peanuts. But …
Hello, Friend, Farewell: A Poem for the Solace of Nature
Hello, friends! Unlike with the Doors of Moria, when the Fellowship in the The Lord of the Rings seek to enter the mines, there is no secret pass code for finding peace, happiness, love, any of those things. However, I find all those emotions exist at once, in your grasp, if you step out your …
Visit London: Transform Dreams into Lived Stories
Visit London: An Introduction I lived in London for two years and I have endless stories from the experience. I’m in the process of organising years of descriptive emails into a series of travel memoirs. Before all that gets settled, I’d like to let you all into some of my experiences as I continue my …
Visiting Mundanity: The Value of Travel for a More Fulfilled Life
Two years ago, I started my UK adventure in the small town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. It’s the sort of middle of the field town where public transportation consists of trains one every hour to larger centres like Ipswich, and otherwise, you really need a car. I managed well enough though, still getting …
The Value of Visiting Museums
Museums… Make your jaw drop the first time. Give you sensory overload. Contain room after room, like the Never-ending Story. And sometimes they begin to look all the same. For example… The Enlightenment Room at the British Museum is an endless hall of collectors bits. I figured this out after a month and a half …
Cardiff: City of Curios
Some people don’t know where Cardiff is. Most people don’t particularly care about going there. Wales. Really? Tiny. Sidelined next to the big ones. England. Scotland. What’s there to do in Wales but see sheep? A lot of sheep? And stone circles. Lots. Also sacrificial stones. This is a park. Well, yes, there are sheep. …