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Warning: if you don’t like nerdy things and/or keyboards, better skip this one. I’m not good with anything fiddly. Lego, IKEA furniture, arts and crafts. I last about two minutes before I throw it across the room. God help any future children of mine who ask me to put the stickers on their Christmas presents. […]
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Mid-year has been and gone, but I’ve been busy with completing my thesis and defending it. Having finished feels like a good enough milestone for a mid-year (ish) review of 2021. If I had to describe the year in a single word, that word would be precipice. The edge before big changes. For the first […]
[Continue reading] about Mid-Year (ish) 2021 ReviewThere’s a real story waiting to be told on Mars, one that only a few have achieved. If people ever go there with any intention of staying, their lives will be fascinating. I’ll expand on this in future posts, but for now here’s a list of questions highlighting how fertile this ground is for stories.
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“This isn’t really a smile, it’s the lid on a scream.” – Julie Goodyear, Coronation Street If I don’t write things I wilt. I get moody. I don’t sleep well. I’m pretty sure I get more colds. It doesn’t have to be anything good, and it usually isn’t. It’s usually the kind of thing that […]
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Unrealistic expectations of who you should be will make you miserable. Turn should-dos causing you stress into want-tos.
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