Bucket list

What’s next year’s challenge going to be?

December 15, 2012 By Ellen

It’s good to have something to aim for – something in the year to give a sense of forward process as the months and days zip past. In previous years I’ve done 10Ks, half marathons, climbed mountains, walked through the night and written a book. Not at the same time, of course. […]

Is it time for a change?

May 9, 2012 By Ellen

Alert: Navels may be inspected. There’s been a little voice in my head for a while. (No, not that voice. I don’t like to talk about that one.)It keeps saying: “It’s time for a change. Do something different. Go on. Get on with it.”Then I came across a post at Kate On Thin Ice for mums […]

Bucket list linky: what do you want to do?

September 21, 2011 By Ellen

What is on your life-long to-do list? Do you have burning ambitions? Of course you do. The 2007 film The Bucket List starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men who go on a road trip with a list of things to do before they kick the bucket. Not, before anyone asks, […]

The opposite to my bucket list

September 21, 2011 By Ellen

It’s called a fuck it list. I recently wrote a post about my bucket list – the things I’d like to spend my life doing, other considerations aside. Writing it, my mind filled with loveliness: days of travel and family and writing things just for the heck of it. Then only a matter of a […]

SMWGla and another bucket list item ticked off (sort of)

September 19, 2011 By Ellen

SMWGla I gave a talk today. At a Social Media Week Glasgow event called Blog Off, hosted by Ryan from Social Chemistry. She asked me to talk about why I blog and what’s so blogging good about it. My mouth found itself saying yes, before my brain had a chance to say: “Hold up, I […]