| Doing what's hardest
28 April 10
Somewhere recently I read about people doing the one thing they're avoiding most, and in my gut I felt that that's what I should be doing. So I signed up a new habit at habitforge.com, and every day they send me an email now asking 'yesterday, did you do the... |
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| More about jealousy
24 April 10
I had to go to a book party this week. And as usual, after fifteen minutes I was ready to run away. So I did.
What frightens me so much about them?
Well, firstly they're often in bookshops, which are nearly the most threatening places in the world - so full... |
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| jealousy
21 April 10
I'm very jealous of Nigella because Luke used to think she was sexy and luscious. So I've been drawing pictures about perfect Grace, all neat and tidy and anal, and her boring old husband Rodney, who just sits and watches Nigella all the time.
Here they are. |
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| more compassion
20 April 10
Maybe there's something in this compassion thing. Being soothed by my kindness to myself makes me realise how jagged and sharp I customarily feel inside. I set other people such high standards, and am so critical (and vocal) about other people's failings. Not my friends - they are usually perfect.... |
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| Compassion
17 April 10
One of the things I've learned in therapy is that we do to others what we want done to ourselves. So those people who were short of nurturing as children often go into caring professions, caring for other people. We're kind and compassionate to other people, when we're hard on... |
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| Wade the Volcano
15 April 10
Wade the Volcano gets very jealous when other, more successful writers get invited to the London Book Fair. He's complained to both Renee Zellweger and the Icelandic Commisarate for Culture and Literature, but no one would listen.
Finally, as a last resort, he took revenge. |
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| The hardest thing
14 April 10
The hardest part of losing Luke has been comforting my children. It's just awful when I see my youngest bereft, and don't have any way to make it better. He misses Luke more and more.
Luke was always great when it was time to go back to school. He helped... |
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| inspired by Grace
13 April 10
I was so inspired by Grace's comment about exercising alone in the basement with her big screen TV and a crunchie that I drew Ethne having fun exercising... |
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| Sunday mornings
11 April 10
This morning I thought, what if I decided today to be brave, and to do the thing I'm most avoiding? What if... I was brave enough to do this everyday?
Two weeks I did what I've been avoiding for three years - I wrote and asked my mother if she'd like... |
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| April 7th
07 April 10
Once again I have a strong sense of Luke with me. He's saying two things - of course he loves me, and that its time to move on and stop obsessing about the things that went wrong between us. To make a new life for myself.
It may all be... |
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| Easter Monday
05 April 10
Easter Monday, and I miss Luke. Easter was really important to him, and I missed him this weekend. He used to cook a fantastic roast lamb and veg, and although we did it, and 11 of us sat down to eat yesterday, he wasn't there, bringing his spiritual element and... |
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| Aluta continua
04 April 10
Remember the love story I was telling you? I got as far as when we lived in Kensington, when we were 26? Well it petered out then, and I was aware of why I stopped writing.
It was at that point that Cinderella realised she'd chosen a prince who'd chosen... |
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| Cinderella
01 April 10
Imagine that Cinderella had been poor, but emotionally nourished. She couldn't go to the ball, her fairy godmother appeared, and offered her a fabulous frock, glass slippers, a tiara,a pumpkin coach and a chance to snare the prince.
And Cinderella said,'hold on a moment. I can have these things, but... |
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