About

Writing, drawing, painting, photography, I’ve dipped my toes into all these pursuits, and in all cases have further submerged a little more of myself.  The last few years I’ve focused (no pun intended) on photography, but writing has always been something I felt I should do more of. Years ago there was poetry, and short stories, and even a couple of novels, none of which you will have read; ninety percent of my writing never went further than the page it was written on or the harddrive it was saved to.  I’ve kept a journal for maybe five or six years, at times intermittently, but I have been writing. The idea of writing a blog has festered for as long as the internet has been around, but it’s always been, “Oh, I must get around to starting that blog”, it’s never gotten further than that. Until now.

Why now?  Well, why not now?  But perhaps a major factor is my current situation; having been out of work for several years as I work on my mental health issues, I find myself with a lot of time on my hands.  Alas because of the very nature of my illness, and my levels of managing it, a lot of time does not equate into a lot of useful time – if it did I wouldn’t have been out of work for so long, to name but one way of employing one’s time.  So in a way my finally getting around to keeping a blog has a lot to do with my developing skills to manage my illness, to rebuild myself.  It’s likely there will be posts regarding mental health issues, although by no means is this a blog about mental health, far from it.  It is a topic though that will come up, perhaps quite often, perhaps rarely – this is all pretty fast and loose, my writing, my creating a blog.  It’s another string to my bow, another arrow in my quiver, another means of managing my condition. Pursuing photography, painting, drawing, writing, having interests, are perhaps as important as my medical appointments, my medication, my support groups.  It all adds up to a healthier me.

This blog will be about anything and everything, whatever attracts my interest and that I feel I have something to say about.  It may be as intermittent as my journal keeping, although I’m hoping to have some regularity, something to keep adding on a frequent basis.  And I hope there’s something of interest to anyone who happens across it. I also hope you bear with my actual writing – it’s very rough and very rambling, but with time and with practice it should improve.  That’s the theory anyway…

So here it is, my blog.  I’m hoping that both you and I get something out if it!