on the edge of ordinary

I'm back in northern Japan at another five-day writing  retreat, a pretty similar event to what I organised in May last year. We have te...

This year I've been working on a big goal that I wrote about here in May last year when I was at the writer's retreat I organised, a...

Every now and then I take on a short-term publishing project. Last year one of my colleagues asked if I'd be willing to write up the tru...

 This week is all about getting as much of our regular work finished as far ahead as possible. I've been doing these things this week: T...

These last couple of weeks have been much more pedestrian than our Spring Break adventure. It's been time to start facing up to the real...

It's starting to look as autumnal  as it feels in Tokyo. I am grappling with what it means to call myself a writer. I've been doing ...

For most of last week I hung out with the OMF Japan social media team . We're a five-person remote team and work from our respective hom...

We are into day four of our five-day writing retreat. It's going really well from an organiser's perspective. You might wonder what ...

One of my secret joys is getting away with other people who love to write, and simply focussing on writing. And living in a country where th...

[Written yesterday, but I ran out of time to finish it off and post it.] I'm having an exceptionally difficult time concentrating on any...

I'm in a post-retreat slump.   This morning (Monday), I struggled to wake up, despite having a very quiet, restful day on Saturday. And ...

It’s been two weeks since I last wrote here. Where did that time go?  In school colours Wrestling again I've been at two wrestling tourn...

I took time out of the house yesterday, mostly with the intention of making more progress in reading the book  Awe and intentionally followi...

This has been an interesting week, and not as quiet as my written schedule might lead you to believe. I think I'd been settling just a l...