Writing – Mad to Live

Writing Update – May

By: Zofia May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

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It’s been a pretty busy past month or so, and writing has been more of a challenge for me. We are currently on a visit back to the UK, so very much out of our regular routines, and of course the babba is a month older, and now very much constantly on the move (crawling and furniture walking), so I can no longer really write in moments of playtime. Nothing unanticipated there.

Motherhood Moments

By: Zofia April 23, 2023April 23, 2023

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My baby lies asleep on my lap. He is ill for the first time, a tummy bug. Cradling his little exhausted body in my arms and stroking his head I just want to kiss him over and again, I love him so intensely. Soon I will be struck down too, although when I started writing this I was hopeful I might have escaped. I am not prepared for how violently it hits me, I feel I have been wrung out and bruised from the inside, and I am filled with amazement at how bravely my little one weathered it. Fortunately it passes through us both in 24h, and we are now recovered.

Writing Update – April

By: Zofia April 2, 2023April 3, 2023

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At the end of December, when my baby was just three months and I was still spending more of the night awake than asleep, I made a list of three personal and professional things that I wanted to accomplish this year. One of them, as I mentioned in a recent post, was to develop a writing practice.

30 days of yoga with a baby – and other new year resolutions

By: Zofia January 29, 2023January 30, 2023

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You might have noticed that I’m trying to write weekly again, at least for a while. I like taking a moment to look back upon things at the close of the year, a moment to pause and ask myself what I want going forward. I embrace the symbolism of January, two-faced Janus, gazing both into the future and the past. It allows me to pivot, redirect my attention, review my priorities…

Tiny Stargazer

By: Zofia January 2, 2023

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I started writing this post towards the end of October, as I began to stir and emerge from the blur of the first few weeks. I remember turning the page of my calendar and realising with a physical shock that the month was almost over. I’d barely noticed it had begun.

Fear, Shame and Kindness

By: Zofia July 19, 2020April 7, 2021

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For the last week at work I have been providing cover for a service that operates largely outside the realm of my knowledge and experience. I don’t say that with any false modesty.