Essays

At the best of times, I as cordial as the rest, but the last couple of new people had been a bloody nightmare. I wasn’t looking forward to meeting the new man who’d be sitting next to me for the next three months

It’s November and NaNoWriMo is with us again. So can this year’s effort at this creative writing content succeed where other’s have failed to hit the mark?

A few years ago, I decided to indulge myself and went back to college for a year and did a course in Journalism. It was a part-time evening course, once or twice per week, which I enrolled upon to satisfy my curiosity about the world of news reporting. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and although I did not do it to change my career, I did learn much about the skill of writing news and crafting engaging copy that others would be compelled to read. ...

It is inevitable, don’t even try to deny it, at this time of year, we all look back and reflect on the past 12 months, and judge ourselves against a bewildering level of social barometers as to whether we’ve done well, or failed miserably. In fact, some people do this every month! Measuring your achievements or lack thereof, is something that can be quite a useful exercise but how can we avoid the pitfall of becoming bogged down with our failures? ...

Prompted by an article written this week by Wonder Woman, I began to ponder about problem solving using your subconscious, rather than your conscious mind. It is often said that human beings only use about ten percent of our brains capacity. Could it be that we only use this amount because we measure brain activity only when we are awake, that we consider the time we spend sleeping as ‘downtime’? ...