Note to Self

Episode 1

Some years ago, I got into the habit of writing — and publishing — every day.

I would pen a mix of poetry or longer form pieces depending on where my head was at at any point in time and every now and then would venture into something a little more specific, factual or topical because, well, why not.

Over the course of the pandemic, I’ve been writing mostly for myself. I started a journal around Feb last year and started counting the days since we went into our first lock down back in March.

Yesterday was day 324.

Today I decided it was time to start exercising my public writing muscles properly again, and using a trick I learned from the good folk at 100 Naked Words, I have decided to make writing, and publishing something daily a new habit.

I’m going to preface this as I always to with a caveat that I am not here to preach, to sneer or to make folk feel bad about themselves. Self loathing is easy enough without having others egg you on.

But I am here to be brutally honest with myself, and with you if you choose to join me on this self exploration I have chosen to entitle Notes to Self.

That honesty helps me understand my own motivations, my own failings, my own struggles and triggers as well as accept my own successes rather…