I’ve been awake since the small hours. I did my online food shop, watched an inspiring video, read some inspiring words. When it was clear sleep wouldn’t return, words of my own began forming, building, organising themselves into neat little ranks, and I felt a familiar urge: I needed to write. I crept downstairs, moving … Continue reading Real Life Problems: Lessons Learned from My Son’s Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis
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Work Hard, Laze Hard
How would you feel if I called you lazy? I don't know about you, but I can feel my hackles rising, the word has so many negative connotations doesn’t it? It's a criticism which my inner critic, Brian, likes to wheel out every now and again, especially when I'm feeling stuck in a rut. He … Continue reading Work Hard, Laze Hard
The Metaphorical Oracle
Each and every morning I step upon the scale I try to resist the calling, but always to no avail The numbers it foretells hold a strange power over me For they often can predict, just how my day will be Should the number go up my day will be grim I lose an … Continue reading The Metaphorical Oracle
The little things really do make a big difference, if you give them enough time
Anyone who has known me for longer than six years will know that exercise was not something I ever really committed to in the past. In my youth and early twenties I actively avoided it. I would attend the gym sporadically (usually before a holiday) but I never got much fitter and just pegged exercise … Continue reading The little things really do make a big difference, if you give them enough time
Rae Cod’s Writing 