Tonight I was at a workshop for parents of teens on “Supporting Teenagers to Become Sexually Healthy Adults”. This wasn’t a birds and bees kinda talk, this was about what teens are doing these days, what sexual health is (you wouldn’t think that looks different but it does) and the medical side of things. It…
Learning
Readers, a question…
Dear readers of my blog, I am in the process of setting up a monthly author newsletter. Now, I do realise I am not yet published, but I see this as getting ready for when I do (and also so I am in the habit of writing it). What I am wondering is what would…
The Mandela Effect
On a recent episode of Criminal Minds they talked about the Mandela Effect while giving a profile. I’d never heard of it before so looked into it. Turns out it is an actual thing. The Mandela effect occurs when a large group of people believe an event occurred when it did not. The Mandela effect…
No Regrets
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. Write down one regret.I don’t like to think about regrets, after all, regrets are really wishing you’d made another choice. When you make a choice, you are making it based on the information you have on hand. That can come from…
School’s back…kinda
Today my eldest Barbarian (Heckle) starts back at school after 6 weeks of closed schools. Thanks to a gradual start to face-to-face schooling, Jeckle won’t start back until 2 June (after 8 weeks away). Both Barbarians are excited to be going back to school. Online learning just isn’t the same. Hopefully everything will go well…