by Rananda | Oct 25, 2020 | Public Speaking, Writing
An adrenaline shot excites my heart, but my throat tightens; I’m unwilling to talk. Why is someone interviewing me? I’m not planning to re-join the ranks of the employed anytime soon, so this can’t be a job interview. But maybe I’ve become a famous author, or...
by Rananda | Oct 18, 2020 | Social Media
I quit Social Media in 2017. It was too good and so bad. Months later, we adopted our white German shepherd from a dog rescue. When we met him, after a short get-to-know-you walk on the lead, I opened his mouth and put my hand inside. He froze and gave a crazed roll...
by Rananda | Oct 3, 2020 | Writing
In a child’s bedroom peppered with an explosion of popular tiny plastic toys, tucked at the back of the walk-in wardrobe, I keep a large, battered, old trunk. Its clasps are so rusty that I hurt my fingers when I try to prise them open. I put this decrepit trunk in...
by Rananda | Oct 2, 2020 | Writing
Following the recession of the early nineties, I felt the weight of parental expectation to ‘make the most of your potential’ and choose a proper job. Unlike their wishes for me, my parents’ careers had veered from law to fruit farming and hypnotherapy meandering back...
by Rananda | Oct 2, 2020 | Writing
How’s that monkey doing? The one sitting on your shoulder? Is he gorging on your procrastination? Have you given him some morsels from social media, or the contents of a few special-offer emails, or let him snack on some celebrity gossip sites? He’s hungry, isn’t he?...
