The List for Living is still alive! Yep this time I haven’t left it to flounder away in the vastness of the internet, occasionally sending malicious prods of guilt my way for forgetting it along with my good intentions. Nope. This time I have actually done things from the list. Yes indeed. *pats-self-on-shoulder-in-a-slightly-awkward-yet-proud-of-myself-way* In an […]
I present my List for living. Initially inspired by reading about the BBC journalist Helen Fawkes who faced her cancer diagnosis with a list determined to make the most of the life that she had left (see my original blog post) and given a recent reboot here. This list is to remind me to live, to not […]
I am not one for making new year resolutions. I mean – what do you actually get from making them? Other than a feeling of guilt when almost inevitably they fall by the wayside weeks or even days after the clock has struck 12. After all nothing has changed from the hours before midnight to […]
First of all let me say wow. Let me say thank you for all the wonderful responses to my post ‘the life in your years’. Clicking that publish button was seriously hard. The response I got here and on social media made all the doubts and tears rolled up in that post more than worth it. […]
“It’s not the years in your life that matter…it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln (*possibly*) I had a completely different article in mind to write today. Instead I came across this article on the BBC website about journalist Helen Fawkes who died earlier this month. It talks about how she faced […]