It doesn’t matter how much imagination or empathy you’ve got, sometimes it’s hard to know what something feels like til you’re doing it. What I’m doing these days is being nearly 50. (Less than a fortnight, since you ask.) From the advantage of youth, you’d have thought that 50 was the end of the […]
This magical May
What’s been going on? I love May. Not just because it’s birthday month, but because of sunshine and sharp cool mornings. This May is shaping up to be a cracker with blue skies and freckles all over the place. Mayday, mayday, mayday. On May Day I was troubling the airwaves as the guest on a […]
Going for a wee
Then off you go, it’s first on the left. by Vrangtante Brun via Flickr OK. Better now? It’s not that kind of wee I want to talk about. It’s the wee “we”, a pronoun – first person plural. Clearly it’s a very useful little world. “We are a grandmother,” wouldn’t have the same whiff of […]
On a (nearly) 50-year-old mind…
How can I possibly be 50? 40 was old enough and that was only 10 minutes ago. They’re right, though. You don’t feel any different inside. Can I pick 28? That was a great age. Between puppy fat and baby fat! So, if nothing has changed in the last decade, how come the all the […]
I’d rule the world, if I could remember where I put the instructions
What is it? That thing. The important thing, that I have to do today, before it’s too late. A writing thing, or… I know. An email. That’s it. I’ll have sent myself a message. I do that sometimes when it’s vital The Thing doesn’t slip the net. Because I know I read all of the […]