Being creative sucks

Well, it sucks some of the time. Other times it’s fabulous. When it’s fab, it’s seriously fab. Totally worth it. But oh, does it sometimes suck… What brought this on, you ask. What brought this on is that I set … Continue reading →

Being still doesn’t necessarily mean being still.

I used to think that being still meant sitting down and not moving. Eyes shut to avoid distractions, or eyes looking at stuff that I find helpful to stillness, like a blank wall, or a river, or an open sky … Continue reading →

Let’s keep in touch

I’ve left Facebook. Oh, but how will you keep in touch with all those friends? I’m not convinced that I really was. What does being “friends” with someone on Facebook really mean? It means that one of you clicked on … Continue reading →

It may be free, but it costs too much

or: why I’m leaving Facebook This is what I posted on Facebook yesterday: I’m sorry, friends, but Mark Zuckerberg has said in the past that he doesn’t believe in the concept of privacy, and he keeps proving this again and … Continue reading →

Friendly Warning #3: Comments Policy

Call me a stick in the mud, but I have this quaint old-fashioned idea that comments on a blog post should be relevant to the post. :) This is a blog. WordPress is not a social networking site. And even … Continue reading →

Friendly warning

This is something I’ve said recently on my old-and-almost-deceased blog on Multiply but felt it’s worth saying here too: if you are someone who knows me from somewhere else, you are very very welcome to follow my blog but please … Continue reading →

Finding stuff I’d lost

It’s over two years since I finished the counselling course and I’m still finding stuff that I’d lost back then. I had no idea what that course would cost me, and am still finding out.

Welcome to the real world

How often have you heard it? Those disparaging comments about spending too much time online, about how much better it is to get out there and talk to “real” people… But, you know, these people that I talk to online, … Continue reading →

But you could just use Google+ for blogging…

Some reasons why I don’t When Google+ was new (back in July :)) people were saying things like: ooh, isn’t this great, you can write posts as long as you like, so it’s like a blog really. These were presumably … Continue reading →

Worth posting? Who decides?

Since I’ve been hanging out on Google+ I’ve been hearing a huge amount of discussion about what people should or shouldn’t post there. (Dontcha just love the way we humans keep trying to legislate our fellow humans’ behaviour based on … Continue reading →