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To a teenager

March 24, 2017 By Ellen

I see you, teenage child. With your swagger and secrets. Sticking your flag in new territories. Of course, I’m boring. Show me a mother who isn’t. It’s our gift. To you. A life solidified – a crash mat made of person. Ready for your ungrateful bounce.  

Filed Under: boys, family Tagged With: children, creative writing, in my life, poetry, teenager, writing

A slacker’s guide to Treasure Island

March 16, 2017 By Ellen

  OK, I am not as on track with the Slacker’s Guide than I’d hoped to be. In the same way that only getting half-way up a hill twice does not equal having bagged a Munro, half of Moby Dick plus half of Anna Karenina don’t equal two properly ticked off classics. Ho hum. Maybe […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: books, creative writing, education, fiction, literature, reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, slacker's guide, something happened in my world, Treasure Island, writing

What’s been going on this week

March 3, 2017 By Ellen

March already and I’m still picking pine needles from between the floorboards. Best thing to do for World Book Day? … buy a book and read it It’s World Book Day today and all over the country parents are tearing their hair out at the unreasonable costume demands this causes. Mercifully, the head teacher at […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, creative writing, feminism, Glasgow, humour, in my life, MLitt, on my mind, writing

A fine bed

February 21, 2017 By Ellen

A poem inspired by Fionaoutdoors and her adventure in the furniture shop.  A fine bed It will last 20 years, they said. This bed. Like a galleon, strong enough to sail through your stormy nights, safely to the dawns. The wood got ready in forests. Sprouting and branching while you were still rolling through the […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, other things I have learned, Write, writing Tagged With: creative writing, fun, in my life, in the world, poem, weekend, writing

What’s on my mind this week (the really not very exciting version)

February 11, 2017 By Ellen

Have you ever had so much to write about that you didn’t know where to start? And as a result didn’t start at all? That’s me this week. Not, of course, that any of it is very exciting. Nothing in the realm of ‘you’ll never believe this’ or even ‘wow’, just ordinary stuff, only lots […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: 30% Club, Bechdel Test, boys, creative writing, Cumbria, family, feminism, Helena Morrissey, language, Penrith, Something happened in my life, women, words, writing

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