Liz’s Ambition – If Only

Listen to this post: Ambition: ‘desire and determination to achieve success.‘ https://languages.oup.com I’m the least ambitious person there is. My main motivation to go to university in the early 2000s was to have a career to fall back on in case I got a divorce. No, I wasn’t married at …

Bad Habits – Wasting My Time with Social Media and Videogames

“Go do something worthwhile,” my mother would often say to me. As a kid, I struggled with this concept. Without cleaning up chores, what really is ‘something worthwhile’ for an eight-year-old? Often I would go read, or once I learned a booklet by heart since I didn’t know what else …

It Was the Year 2020…

I don’t like repeating phrases, but what a year this has been. I reread my resolutions post from the beginning of the year, and I warily smiled at my innocence. I didn’t know what was coming. I had no idea I was soon going to be locked inside my house …

My Journey So Far in Writing

Not Just Blog-Writing My blog has been online since April 2018. That’s not very long. During my interview with His Lordship, I realised not many people know I’ve been writing for a longer time than that. On the contrary, I’ve been writing my whole life.For a long time, I have …