Reaching for the stars…

“Every graduate – scratch that – every person has the chance to reach for the stars in their chosen field.” Richard Branson sure does talk sense. And I love Graduation speeches. They rock. Read...

Will You Be There

It’s deadline week. After Thursday…I’ll be free. Got songs playing on repeat. …and many more. I’ll be back soon. Adieu. ♥

I Held You in the Square

I Held You in the Square ~ Ben Okri I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body. Your gentleness made the...

Lights On.

“The past is only the future with the lights on.” There’s something about being around people you knew when you were growing up; it’s like you fall back into patterns of behaviour…yet slightly more...

Today is going to be a good day.

What a beautiful weekend it has been, and it’s not over yet. It’s been truly lovely, here in Southwold – sunshine has been out to play every day. The freckles have invaded…summer is almost here! If...

A Weekend Seaside Retreat…

This weekend (which is a bank holiday weekend here in the UK) I’ve escaped from London…and found myself beside the sea. It’s a family favourite, this place…and I couldn’t be happier to be here....

Girl, tonight you look so pretty.

Yes, you do. Must admit, tonight has been a real odd one. (And just in case you were wondering, the photo above was around this time last year – what a year it’s been.) All day long, I’ve had Hey...

Assumptions and Misconceptions

There’s been something that has been on my mind for a while, but I’ve not known quite how to word it. Something that I have had to accept, as a deaf person, is that there will always be people in...

Speaking Up.

Wow. Over the past couple of weeks, so much has been bubbling within me, to the point where I’ve gone beyond feeling angry about things, and am now trying to use that anger to make a positive...

Age is but a number.

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” ~ May Lamberton Becker Tonight, I’ve been thinking a lot about age, and how once we hit a certain age…we feel slightly...

My Journey as a Deaf Learner

Yesterday, my experiences from my education were published on Deaf Unity’s website. It’s a long article, but I talk about my experiences all the way from Primary school, right the way to now. If...

Praising the Sunshine

There is something that resembles a massive ball of fire, burning in the sky…oh, worry not, it’s just the glorious SUNSHINE. There’s something about Spring that makes my heart so happy, and I’m so,...

Moments to Remember.

The news, over the past few days, has made my heart heavy. Boston, you’re in my thoughts. I’ve stumbled upon a blog post that really speaks to me, from a blogger I love. “It is in our most...

The Importance of Words…and other things.

Lately, I’ve had a lot of deep conversations; the kind that really get you fired up and passionate. Some have been good, others have ended with sharp words. All of the latter have been resolved,...

Through My Lens

On Tuesday, I went on a photo outing with Victoria, one of the boy’s sisters. Feel pretty lucky, as we both got our DSLRs around the same time, and so we occasionally go on these random photo...

Bucket of a List.

Here it is…the first 100 things on my EPIC Bucket List…and you can be sure that it’ll continue to grow. So excited to tick more things off, and keep adding to it. May create a page for this post,...

Life, and other such thing…

For the assignment before the last one I did, I wrote about depression. It was a life writing piece, and it was extremely hard to write, but also extremely cathartic. After I submitted it, I felt a...

Happy Days Are Here Again

Hey guys and dolls…sooo…a little while has passed since I last posted – you know the drill, life gets busy and you can’t juggle it all. There have been many moments lately where I’ve planned out a...

New York, New York: Part 5.

After the magic of Thursday, the boy, my mum and I jumped on a bus…and took in some of the Christmas lights that were scattered around the city. When that was done, my mum went back to the hotel to...

Forging Ahead

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand from The Fountainhead “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Disappearing Acts

There is no exact moment in time that I can pinpoint it to; but over the past three years, my hearing has dropped. Drastically. It’s a hard thing to talk and write about, I still get a bit teary...

New York, New York: Part 4.

Thursday: creating magic in the form of memories to last a lifetime for Lizzie (and Dan). It was a special day. Dan had told us (my mum, dad, Matt and I) a few weeks beforehand, that when we were...

New York, New York: Part 3.

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky...

That bucket list I made…

Last summer I made my first ‘bucket list’, with the aim to complete as many items as I could over the course of the summer…it had 30 items on it. I didn’t manage to tick many things off,...

The Future is Yours.

10 Things I Love

A little round-up of things I am currently loving… 1 ♥ This beautiful (or, as she would say, brutiful) post by Glennon on Momastery. 2 ♥ This camera. I want. Bad. 3 ♥ Amanda Palmer: The art of...

New York, New York: Part 2.

“You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.” ~ Alec Waugh After the ferry ride, we walked through the streets…and landed in a Starbucks (surprise, surprise). When we were...

New York, New York: Part 1.

In December, after 7 years of a deep longing to go back…we did. Back to New York; the place I fell in love with, way back in December 2005 as a 16-year-old. That first time was magical; it was just...

How to Brighten Someone’s Day…

…in 8 steps! I came across a wikiHow article that I really love, and it’s so simple…but incredibly effective. Often, in London, an encounter where you gain a smile, or a kind act, can be very rare....

The very beginning.

We all have to start somewhere; whether it’s an assignment you need to do, a work task…or starting a whole new venture. That’s kind of where I’m at at the moment. At the beginning, wondering where...