STRUGGLES

As children, we have imaginary friends, we have imaginations that can take us to where ever we want and be anything we want to be.

As children, we don’t see barriers in the way preventing us. If we want to fly to the moon all we needed to do was dress up and make rocket noises and there we were on the surface of the moon.

We could make mud pies out of dirt and water and create our own little bakery.

We could make houses out of sticks and stones.

We could be anyone we wanted to be or…

THOUGHTS

It is said that hindsight is 2020. With all the uncertainty 2020 bought us, it gave us the need to reevaluate our priorities in our lives and I guess declutter our lives of what we need and what we don’t.

It’s all too easy to get caught up in the usual habits and time-wasting activities. With the first covid lockdown in March last year, I started looking at ways I had control over things rather than worry about the things I didn’t.

Life was so stressful at first with new changes none of us had ever experienced before.

One of…

CONFESSIONS

Today in my phone calendar it showed up today is 2 years since I ended my volunteering.

I put it in my phone calendar to remind me of just how far I’ve come each year since.

2 years ago, I had been volunteering for 3 years and my police criminal history check was due for renewal. At first, when I started, I was given an amazing opportunity to be part of a project being implemented.

Even though I was the only one not getting paid, I appreciated the hands-on experience because it coincided with my project management studies I was…

THOUGHTS

Cry but dammit get back up on that horse when you’re finished, my grandfather who raised me would always say to me. This is my favorite photo of him and me, and yes that is me on that horse.

If you’ve been following my writing on here for a while you would have read that I lost him in 2008 to a massive heart attack. …

I’ve been writing here on Medium every day this year so far. Unfortunately yesterday this writer had one of those days and really just couldn’t mentally go to my laptop and start typing.

While I do feel writing is cathartic to me, yesterday I just felt like I hit a wall and really just needed to recalibrate myself.

I realized that was okay and healthy to do as everyone needs a time out from time to time no matter what they do.

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines recalibrate as

: to calibrate (something) again… these systems gradually drift off course…

Since Friday, March 18th, Sydney, Australia, has been hit with a torrential downpour of over 100mm of relentless rain and, in many areas, flooding, therefore causing residents to evacuate their homes.

While I do live in Sydney, I do live in an area that so far has not been hit by flooding so I’m safe for now.

This time last year, Sydney was hit with months of drought with no rain for months and so now it seems mother nature is making up for the lost time.

Despite multiple warnings, people are still, unfortunately, driving through floodwaters and therefore require…

Last year I was added as a writer into the medium publication RESONATES by Morris T after reaching out to me when I was challenging myself to write every day for 30 days in November, and he had come across my writing.

I became a Medium member in January last year, but last year I just wrote sporadically and not really investing my time here on Medium. Therefore I lost about $25 last year in earnings than what I was paying in medium membership.

I was thrilled to be invited and accepted into his medium publication. So I tested myself…

THOUGHTS

As a writer, the dreaded writer's block is always hovering around silently disguised as a blank page on a screen with a blinking cursor pacing and ready to strike us down preventing us from writing.

But we can keep that beast away by using what we have.

We all have five senses to use. Touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. There are seven days of the week that you can write about. You can write a movie review on a movie you’ve recently watched, you can write about a song you’ve heard, you can write about the weather where you…