I love dancing. I always have, and I always will. My grandma always said it came from her. She loved dancing, and always did. It was how she met her husband, my grandfather, at a local dance. Now she’s gone, when I dance with my other half, I think of her, imagine her doing the… Continue reading Loving Dancing
Category: Creative Non Fiction
Crying at The Tigger Movie
As a child, I was obsessed with Winnie the Pooh. I loved Piglet the best. He was my favorite. He was small, and quiet. He stammered sometimes. He was afraid of the world, and pretty much everything in it. All of the things I was back then. I saw him as a friend, someone who… Continue reading Crying at The Tigger Movie
A Better Year
For the past four years, I have struggled with the festive season. I first got diagnosed with the visual impairment in 2017, just before Christmas. It was a horrible time, one of the worst periods of depression I’ve ever experienced, made worse by the cheerful season. The years after were a little better, but still… Continue reading A Better Year
Hating Fireworks
I don’t like fireworks. I never have. And I never will. I know I’m supposed to. But I just can’t. I know that when I admit this, people moan. Say I’m being a spoilsport, that I should just get over it, or that it’s not a big deal. But they are a big deal for… Continue reading Hating Fireworks
A Drop of Kindness
Its amazing how much difference a drop of kindness makes. Yesterday, I had to go to Moorfields again. I was dreading it, but I decided to go, hoping they might be helpful and offer me some new magnifiers. I’ve learned not to expect too much from them. Not to set my hopes too high. I… Continue reading A Drop of Kindness
Halloween
In my family, we never really celebrated Halloween. We never really dressed up or watched a movie. We just had a normal evening, and shut the curtains. I think I went trick or treating once, growing up. I don’t remember it being very enjoyable. I think I usually ended up reading some stories, or writing… Continue reading Halloween
World Sight Day
Today is World Sight Day. So today, I shall try to talk about my sight. I have a visual impairment. And no, I don’t just mean that my sight is terrible. I mean that my retinas are screwed. I stare through a sea of sparkling dots that flood my vision every day. I see flashes… Continue reading World Sight Day
Novel Dreams
As a child, I always dreamed of writing a novel. I wanted to be like my hero Tolkien. Write a fantasy novel set somewhere wonderful, full of action and adventure and danger and monsters. I tried several times, to write a novel. I would write whole sections of it at school, between lessons, on trains.… Continue reading Novel Dreams
Why I Love Headphones
I love headphones. I carry a set everywhere. I wear them all the time. I have a favorite set, a green pair I bought on Amazon ages ago, but have really good sound and are super comfortable. I even have a spare blue pair, just in case. I love headphones. I can’t concentrate in silence.… Continue reading Why I Love Headphones
Writing in Many Places
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I would always carry a notebook and pen, just in case. Ideas would come to me, and I would scribble them down wherever I was. So I have written in many places. I have written flash fictions in coffee shops, fuelled by mochas. I… Continue reading Writing in Many Places