My best books from 2016
2016 was bad when evaluated in terms of celebrity deaths, climate change indicators and world politics. However, for me at…
Musings from the mind of Jo
Small acts of defiant hope
The internet is awash with responses to the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States. Like…
Limited
There are some life lessons I seem to need to learn over and over again, the hard way. This week…
All about me-moir
When I sit down to write, one of my main challenges is to concentrate over the din of the voices…
No one likes a bragger
Donald Trump is a pathological bragger. I have just watched this CNN interview in which he’s unable to resist responding to…
In the thick of it
Let me start with a positive spin on this whole EU referendum mess: I am nearly forty (two years off…
The story of a book
The journey of a book from idea to publication is always different and rarely straightforward. Each of my books have…
Soulfulness
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about energy. I’ve become painfully aware that my reserves are finite and I can’t…
5 depression-defeating disciplines
When I wrote Through the Dark Woods, I thought I was done with depression. A decade on and I have…
Lazy Storytelling
Have you ever seen those story books for children learning to read where on the left page they have several…