Happy New Year! It's been over a month now since I took my annual year-end writing break. But something's a little different about this recent hiatus. I didn't miss writing as much as before! Blogging consistently over the past eight years, I've always looked forward to a new year of creating and writing whenever January … Continue reading What Will My Writing Look Like In 2026?
When it comes to getting my attention this new year, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. Right from the get-go. This year, I refuse to give more than a single minute of my attention to larger-than-life, supremely arrogant, deeply polarising, and morally reprehensible characters like Trump and Musk. You see, the fact isn't … Continue reading Where Should We Place Our Attention This Year?
Here We Go Again! Oh NO! Another year's about to goWhich means I'm going to do it againMusingReflectingPlanning like mad! All the HopesDreamsAmbitions Poured out like vomit Onto my notepad When will I learn to slow it down?Just focus on one or two things andLeave the rest outBut I can'tMy mind's just full of wishes … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #214
Greetings and a happy new year to you! It's a brand new year for writing and I hope you're as excited as I am for what's in store this year on my blog. For my first essay blog post of 2024, I'm gonna talk about...surprise surprise...writing in the new year. Yet what exactly do I … Continue reading Five years of writing. Five hundred over posts. What’s next?
On this the second last day of 2023, a most eventful year for me, I thought why not pause to recap some major milestones?! It's also a great time to look ahead to what's in store in 2024 as I believe there are more memorable moments to come! Ready? Then, let's go! Remembering 2023 with … Continue reading 2023’s been great. But I believe more’s in store in 2024!
Sonnet: One step at a time Every mountain is climbedOne step at a timeEvery ladder rung mountedOne foot over the other That's what I was toldA thousand years agoYet this new year I'm stillAt the bottom of the hill So what's a man to doAt the bottom of a hillBut pick himself upDust himself off … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #114
Not again!! Not again!!2022 to 3 to 4 to...How do they do it?One passing the torchTo the next in a splitRunners in a four by one hundredBlazing past meWithout warningWithout pausingOnly moving ever forwardIn ever-expanding concentric circlesAnd dragging meRight alongKickin'Screamin'"LET GO OF ME! LET!" I wanna stay behindThere are things in the old year still … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #113
I'm probably going to regret publishing this. Oh well, as dame Doris Day once sang (yes I'm that old), "Que Sera Sera...Whatever will be will be". After all, the start of a brand new year is typically the time lots of people say lots of things right? Things that sound like resolutions. Or a promise … Continue reading This new year, I’m gonna lean into what scares me!
Begin Again As day makes way for night And dark recedes from lightAs winter will soon take flightA new year we should start right. 2021 put on quite a showOf at times false bravadoTil Omicron said "Hello!"And dealt us another blow. We can't help but to wonderWhat's next to make us flounderWill we be torn asunderAnd … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #61
Happy New Year! Here's hoping you're looking forward to the next 12 months of 2022. I know I am. But not for the usual reasons. Like a new birth, job, wedding or anniversary. For me, it's about...new textbooks! YES siree...I geek on textbooks! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Ever since I was a kid, I've … Continue reading Parenting Motivations #7: Best part of a new year? New textbooks!
