Month: February 2022

You are Not Normal

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And that’s a good thing! I enjoy watching documentaries, real life lore and learning new things in easy-to-understand bite-size chunks. Today I watched a video from TED-Ed. If you’ve not seen their YouTube channel before, you should check it out as it has some fantastic videos, most only 5 minutes in length. Their latest video asks: What is “normal” and what is “different”? It’s a question I – and I’m sure many others – have …

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Poetry for the half asleep

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I’m writing poetry again. Until recently, I hadn’t written poetry since my late teens. Twenty years has passed me by and my love of reading and writing poetry seemed to dwindle into a distant memory. It was only after writing the poem for my Christmas newsletter that I started again. I’m very much a night owl. My brain doesn’t fully engage in a morning – that’s always been the case for me – and so …

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