Blogging, handwriting and Pen Pals

The art of handwriting and letter writing is becoming obsolete as we are all using text messaging, email, Twitter, Facebook and other types of social media. I have gathered lots of global friends via my blog, and now consider them to be pen pals, and am excited to be meeting a few of them soon…

The ramblings of a writer…

Why do writer’s write? The only reason writers write is they can’t help it; they have to! We are compelled to put pen to pape or fingers to the keyboard, whether it is published or not, almost like an illness or addiction. As a child, I can even recall sitting on the loo, writing on the toilet…

Bright ideas for dementia

Over the festive season, I/we received a number of wonderful phone messages and Christmas cards, with the usual best wishes and love to us all, from, for example, Jacinta and Craig. The envelopes mostly had no return address; only a few with a return address had the sender’s surname. One card included a small business…