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End of 2014

2014 Year in Review: 1. What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before? Took up archery, French, and Aikido. Started reviewing books for print media. Adopted battery hens, became a guinea pig...

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Good morning, 2015.

This year is ready for me, and I am ready for it   I’m starting out how I plan to go on:   Walked on the beach with the hounds and family, breathing in the smell of storm-raised kelp and rotting seals...

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Crop-rotation of the soul and other granola concepts.

Right. Crop rotation. You probably learned about this in school, yeah, but a quick refresher – you have four+ fields, in each you plant a different crop, the following year, you move all the crops...

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I can see and stuff!

So after a lifetime of terrible vision, I had an operation (ICL for those who need to know this sort of thing), and now I can see and it’s kinda weird.   Cool weird, though.   Anyway, for the last week...

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Why I Don’t Know Who You Are

Like most writers, I have fairly unenviable social skills. I say strange and inappropriate things because I want to compliment someone, or because the awkward silence has gone on a minute too long, or...

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Shimmer and Glimmer.

Okay so let me tell you a long tale, one involving naivety, repetition, and sheer bloody-mindedness. Shimmer Magazine started a decade ago. For those keeping record, I started writing more than a...

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Create Small

This morning I was having one of my daily meltdowns where I decide I can’t do anything and everything I try I will fail at. Half the problem is trying to finish huge projects in one go, or having big...

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Water and Witch Houses and More Water

One day, someone is going to notice how often I drown my characters who don’t fit in (call it metaphorical, call it symbolic, call it my last wave, whatever), but until then I’ll keep writing them....

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LABYRINTREE

Today is a good day to do something you love. Just one small thing that brings you joy: it doesn’t have to be big or take a lot of time out of your day, or even something you’re good at, it simply...

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Ow my knee and other sad stories

So on Sunday when we went in to skate, the car died (luckily very close to Murrayfield, so we just managed to limp into the car park). We figured, on the plus side, we’d at least get to skate. Lol...

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