This is my entry for Robert Hruzek’s Group Writing project for April on the theme “What I learned from Adversity”.
A few years ago my husband returned from a networking event to tell me that he had bumped into my old friend and former flatmate Anne. He told me that she was going through another round [...]
I have an inexplicable fear of frogs. I have asked my parents and we can’t work out where it comes from. There is certainly no one incident in my past that we can remember – and my brother was a bit of a menace when we were growing up but I know he did’t bring [...]
I had an early start this morning ( for me – I really come into my own about 3.30 in the afternoon when my most productive and creative phase of the day usually kicks in) and was heading for the station to catch my train to Glasgow for a meeting. I took a different bus [...]
Over coffee recently I was chatting with a couple of business contacts. Neither are the kind of people prone to grumbling but on that day the conversation veered towards gloom and doom. Now I am sure all of us have found ourselves in situations where a conversation which has been going just fine takes a [...]
My husband is very keen on the above quote. He applies it in all sorts of ways. I was reminded of this when chatting to someone about taking on a part time study course. I did this in my mid 30s and they asked me how I coped being a student, holding down a full time job and ( at [...]
