Writings and Ideas on letting ourselves shine.
Do we really need all these labels? All those boxes that we’re asked to tick on every form we fill in…. Do they really help? Or are they all just a hindrance? Normally I would be of the opinion that we would be better off without any of the labels. Male, female, gay, bi, straight, …read more
At the end of June, I did something brave. I’d decided to create an act that included singing, ukulele and…. dancing. Yes, all in one song! And I did. I performed said act at St Leonards Festival. After I had finished my set someone told me I was brave for doing all three things together. My immediate …read more
Not so long ago I was having a glum day. Moping around, asking myself the usual thing I asked on my mopey days…. ‘What am I doing with my life?’ Now the way I asked this was never proactive, it was all doom and gloom-fuelled. More of a rhetorical question; I was never expecting there …read more
I took myself to the sea for lunch one day, where I learned two life lessons from a woman I didn’t even speak to. Here’s what I observed… 1. Age ain’t nothin but a number While I sat on the beach eating my sushi wrap, a very mature lady began walking towards the waves in …read more
I have spent the last year attending a Jazz music course, and it has been great. Having the opportunity to play music with people every week, singing lots of songs I didn’t know before and meeting a variety of people from different backgrounds who are all there for the love of music. But in the …read more
We all know that our society rates youth and beauty highly. The message is plastered everywhere. And I know why the advertisers do it; accepting grey hairs and wrinkles won’t sell hair dye and skin cream. So that’s no good for them right? But what is it doing to us? (Apart from making our wallets …read more
Note: This is the flip side to my recent post ‘Don’t take things personally’ I have a wish. It is for all of us to judge less, or even better, not at all. We are all on our own path, and we can’t possibly understand everyone else’s. Blimey, we can’t even navigate our own road …read more
“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.” – Amy Poehler I have heard this a lot. Heard about really awesome people who have…… doubts! Yet all we ever see is the end result. The successes. We don’t see all the toil that came before, because …read more
Ah, such wonderful advice. But how do we go about achieving this? As a performer, this is advice that would have changed my experience in the dance and theatre world, had I learned to implement it. I didn’t however. I spent my auditions taking everything very personally. Sometimes I would win the job, sometimes I …read more
Will power (or lack of…) I don’t know how you are with will power, but I don’t think I have very much. So I try to find other ways of helping myself. In or Out If someone offers me a plate of biscuits, I am likely to eat some. But I don’t stock my cupboards with …read more