There are moments when being on your own is excruciating. I have been on my own for seven years. The first half of that I couldn’t contemplate being with another man — how could I, when my whole hear...
I’m on the mend but still exhausted. SO OVER IT. How are you? I saw a peacock with a fiery tail Don’t know if this is real, but I like it: The Instagram socialmatic camera (via Christiann...
[Photos by Emily, Gerri, Esme, Nancy, Suzie, Amy, Kathleen and Hannah] It’s thrilling to see the book start reaching its new homes — and seeing my face pop up all over the place via the c...
Never in my wildest dreams did I think my first book would actually be books, plural. I look at my two piles of author’s copies currently living on my sideboard and wonder did i really make tha...
My book has been spotted in Barnes & Noble in the USA. This makes me irrepressibly happy — i’m in a real bookstore :) Exploding flowers Breaking news: girls hate PE (describes my expe...
His standout list of words/expressions, aged two years and one month:Mah help? (help me)Please mummy/please daddy/please shoo-sheCome on mummyCup o tee — he loves tea!Pe-gin (penguin)Pappy (nap...
I’m in such an in-between place at the moment. I sense enormous change coming down the wires, but it’s not here yet, and it’s all I can do not to set my house on fire. I’d lov...
Haven’t been on the internet so much this week (which is a good thing) but the music never stops playingVery funny… 28 Days Late made me cry with laughter (via Jo) How Shakespeare changed...
For DesireGive me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best;and I want the good wine, the swirl in crystalsurrendering the bruised scent of blackberries,or cherries, the rich spurt in the backof...
An email arrived in my inbox this morning that made my heart burst open. As I’m opening registration for the summer session of Blogging from the Heart this Saturday I thought some of you might ...
It’s a special SFTW this week — the Creative Joy edition! We asked some of our favourite people to give us their take on creative joy and what it means/brings to their lives…Christi...
Really fun to find Instant Love in my local Waterstones yesterday — we’re in good company!
When Jen, Marianne and I started talking about doing a retreat together, we knew we wanted JOY infused through everything: through the days, the workshops, through our connections with participants a...
Dear World (via Sas) Hairy chests i want to cry on A breath-taking reminder just how gigantic Jupiter really is [Video] an invocation for beginnings from the awesome Ze Frank The book of the future (...
On this day, six years ago, I sat at my computer and wrote my very first blog post. I remember doing it so clearly. It was a time in my life when I was still smoking, still drinking too much wine, st...
There are times when the ache overwhelms my ability to read, to reason, to be still. It runs from my womb into my heart, a central Iine that will spark and snap like a cheap box of sparklers if you c...
Really honoured to have an article in the spring issue of Somerset Life (with my name on the cover, no less — a first! My journalism tutors would be so proud :) Mmmm… brocollini salad | a...
And just like that, our boy is two.When I go visit for the weekend I make sure I’m there to pick him up from nursery. I peek my head around the door to see where he is — he’ll look ...
Reclaiming the wisdom of your belly Can’t seem to get enough of Anne Lamott this week: here | here | here Judging books by their covers: USA vs UK Aiming for: Paul & Joanne Tara’s new...
I haven’t read it through from first page to last — in all honesty that would be very dull indeed. It gets to the point where your own voice is so familiar it makes you faintly queasy ...
Went into Topshop yesterday, something i haven’t done in a long time, and it was like stepping back into my 80s teenage. Pleased to report that the jewellery is still rad. (Ring from Topshop; b...
Sometimes I’m sitting here writing or procrastinating or whatever it is i’m doing and a song will start playing that taps into all that’s churning in my heart and i can’t stop...
I love you, mum! I couldn’t do any of this without you. xo
Man, even the trailer made me cry #hormones She’s sold 800 million books (also: six tips on writing from John Steinbeck) The ten, make that nine, habits of very organized people. Make that ten....
The internet is so bloody brilliant. I know there’s a lot of crap floating around out there on the interwebs — a LOT of crap — but there is also so much GOOD. I’m so grateful ...
Recently a very loved and cherished friend of mine was telling me about some stress she was having at work. Something had happened and while it wasn’t directly anything to do with her she was s...
Love these clever venn diagrams Wise words from Liz: Are you leaving enough space for your life in your work? The sandwich artist [video] so lovely: The Violin maker A grapefruit olive oil cake for a...
It’s the moment you can’t believe will ever arrive — the first time you have your book in your hands. The book you’ve worked on for two whole years. I remember sitting on my b...
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