It’s hard to know why, but some days, despite having a glorious toddler who is great company, a loving husband and a great family, I feel alone, isolated and sad. Perhaps it’s a shade of depression, and if that’s all I’m left with, that’s pretty damn good. On those days, I miss my mum (Hi Mum!). That’s an inside joke. I never call her mum, I have always called her by her first name. And we keep in touch most days on the phone, and we skype. But it’s not …

After 11 months and 121 hours of lessons I will be taking my driving test tomorrow, again. The first time I took it was just over 2 years ago and after 50 hours of lessons.
I am not a natural driver. And jitters is far too mild a word. I’ve turned off my mobile phone so I can go into a cone of silence pre-test. I really want to pass so this stage of my learning can be finished and done with. I am hoping against hope that I don’t have …

That’s how I choose to think about it. An old friend. Not because I particularly like its company, but because I would struggle to know who I was without it. You don’t get over it so much as manage it. Managing it is probably not an accurate term. It makes it sound like you are in control, when really a good management strategy just gives you enough momentum to survive a trough.
I don’t see much of it anymore because I climbed back from the abyss through a combination of bad …

It’s true. I will be sitting at dinner with a group of people and not just feel like an outsider, but the only outsider. I constantly feel like I’m talking too much or not enough. It is so completely PATHETIC – and not in the good old fashioned pathos way, in the uber modern disconnected empty way. I blame home schooling (I was home schooled on and off until I was in year 8). Yes, home schooling an easy culprit. Unfortunately home schooling is hardly an excuse for a personality.
Oddly, …