I’m a self employed, single mother. It’s fair to say I have a lot going on in my life, and so I’m having to learn how to manage my time well. I’m working on being as productive as possible, in order to achieve as much as possible. These are Read more…
At the moment, I’m reading On Writing by Stephen King. It turns out Mr King has an irrational (or perhaps entirely rational) hatred of the passive tense. And adverbs. For those who don’t know, verbs are either active or passive. When a verb is active, the subject of a sentence Read more…
Earlier this month, I wrote a post about my view on parent blogging. It seems to have attracted more controversy than I was expecting, and I must admit some of the responses I saw got me down a bit. I must point out here that the responses to that post Read more…
The other day I had a meeting about something completely unrelated to my writing or this blog. Over the course of the meeting though, I did mention the blog. Afterwards the person I had been speaking to saw a link to my blog in my email signature, and decided Read more…
Comments I have heard lately: Where do you get all this free stuff? I’m always on Facebook; I might as well set up a blog and get some free stuff too! Wow, blogging looks like a good gig, you get so much free stuff! Ooh, you’re onto a good thing Read more…