This blog is a long time in coming, but something I have wanted passionately to contribute to the universe.

I’m on the precipice of my 51st birthday, and I feel as though my attitude to life, to myself, and to others is undergoing a metamorphosis. As if there is a wall of sound that surrounds me, and I need to chip away to create silence. A wall of:

• expectations from others
• former expectations from myself
• social norms and labels

I don’t mean to make this mysterious. It really isn’t. Maybe I’m simply getting older, rather than changing into something else. But this blog is an opportunity for me to get it down “on paper” (as it were), and to share it, as I feel I am not the only one feeling or thinking these things.

So, welcome. Pour a cup of tea (or coffee, or something stronger) and peruse the shelves for what resonated with you. And share. This is a no-judgement zone.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.