Square One

I saw a post on Instagram recently that said: Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 20 That line was above this photo: My problem in 2007 and for some time beyond was my stupid habit of collecting enough training material to last a lifetime, and...

Hideaway

One Amazon trick that shoppers on the site often talk about is the different prices that are given for the same product from one visit to the next. How might you be able to get round that? You could browse privately, go incognito, using your favourite browser’s...

Paranoimia

I lie in bed some nights and the very last thing I do before I go to sleep feels wrong, wasteful and shameful. I’m on Instagram or, more likely, Twitter, just catching up on the last word on the day, grabbing hold of one, two or twenty more opinions before I switch...

French Kiss

Learning a new language doesn’t come easily to me, especially at 47. It might have been slightly less painful when I was a teenager and learning about La Rochelle and how to ask the way to beach in French. Last year, I thought I’d have a stab at learning a...

Refuse to be Denied

I’m listening to an audiobook at the moment called The Artist’s Journey by Steven Pressfield. Pressfield’s famous for talking about what he calls resistance: the thinking that conspires to stop us from producing creative work and sharing it with the...