You know those cliched career change stories. The banker turned craft brewer. The teacher turned dog walker. The lawyer turned bakery mogul. That X turned Y formula makes the transition sound so fast and so simple! Like The Walking Dead, where you’re a human one minute then bam… you’re a zombie! Okay, maybe that’s not […]
Time for a Operation Foxy By 40 update. Just 3 and-a-bit months to go! I managed 21 of 31 days of the Walking Every Day In May thing. That may sound like a shoddy result, but it’s a huge improvement on the months before. Some lessons learned: 1. If I don’t walk first thing in the morning, […]
Last month this blog turned 17. After some idle number crunching, I realised that two of the women I’m working with at the moment are about the same age that I was when I started! #elderly (I’m doing some part-time contracting at the mo, so I have a great balance of home working days – […]
My exercise mojo has been M.I.A. for about five years and I want it back. In 2012 an orthopaedic specialist advised I cease various fun but pain-inducing activities (e.g. kickboxing and squatting) to preserve what remained of my right knee’s cartilage. While I like being pain-free now, there’s been long periods where “preservation” has translated to “doing sweet feck-all exercise”. At other […]
Things I Briefly Convinced Myself I Needed, While Perusing Instagram In The Midst Of Deadline Denial: Microbladed eyebrows A gigantic, arm-knitted blanket Vitamin C serum A second cat, in a contrasting colour scheme to the first one An Instant Pot Three new haircuts Adult ballet lessons Approximately 27 new novels A turmeric latte* In other news: […]
It’s time for another episode of Working In My PJ’s, a monthly series where I talk to people who are running a web-based business. I ask lots of nosy questions about how and why they do what they do. Today I’m chatting to Heidi Fiedler. Heidi is a children’s book writer and editor. She does, “the deep […]
Happy International Women’s Day. I am so thankful to women near and far for inspiring, moving, entertaining, awakening, teaching, challenging, and opening my eyes ever wider, with your courage, wisdom, tenacity and fierce intelligence. I wanted to share a sprinkling of recent great reads: […]
For me, for many years, exercise was all about calorie burn and the quest to take up less space. But these days I crave something more akin to moving meditation. I want calm and fresh air. I want muscles waking and all senses humming. I want a reminder that my body is not just a brain, and […]
Today I’m kicking off Working In My PJs, a monthly series where I chat to people who are running their own business online. When I was starting out, I’d longing look at those with fancy websites and dazzling testimonials and wondered what it would be like to have one’s shit together. Did they ever fail […]
