I went shopping on Saturday. I went to three grocery stores and one drug store type place, as well as the fabric shop. I spent about £400. Yes, I am one of those. But I am not a #panicbuyer. And there was not a single loo roll among my purchases…

Meghan and Harry are all over the news this week. Even more so than usual. And while I respect that this is the personal decision of a couple, trying to save their marriage and raise a happy, well-adjusted child, it is also a socio-political matter. …

It is the first day of the New Year. And a new decade. It may also be the most crucial time in our human history. Our planet Earth, the Great Mother, is on the verge of disaster. And it is our fault. We have used and abused her. I don’t…

Today is Friday, the 13th. It is also the results of elections here in the UK, where I have lived for, ironically enough, thirteen years. Many people are making connections between the two. At @HomeCrazzyHome, we have joked for weeks about it being the beginning of the apocalypse. But today…

As a writer, I have struggled to find advice that works for me. Don’t get me wrong. There is a plethora of it out there. · Don’t use adverbs. Ever. · Don’t use big words when small ones will do. · And my all-time least favorite…Show. Don’t tell. Those messages…

It was a cold winter that year. I remember playing under our ugly yellow-brown Formica kitchen table. My great-grandmother, whom I called Nanny, was drinking instant black coffee at seven in the evening with her friend, Miss Ethel. Miss Ethel was grieving; her husband had died that summer. A heart…

Is competition a good thing for writers? Today is November 1st. It is the first day of National Novel Writing Month, better known as #NaNoWriMo. An international online challenge to write a fifty-thousand-word novel in thirty days. This is my seventh time participating. I have ‘won’ just twice. It bodes…

If you clicked on this article out of curiosity, thinking what is this #Preptober and what the heck is a pantser, let me catch you up quickly. November is National Novel Writing Month, also known as #NaNoWriMo. It is a worldwide, online challenge to write a fifty-thousand-word novel in thirty…

I took a walk this morning through the park near our @HomeCrazzyHome. It is the best that I can do in this realm of modernity. I cannot do as Henry David Thoreau did and simply move to Walden Pond. Though I recognize that a few people still try, and fewer…