Why an About me...
I never really wanted to write an about me page. I don't ever think my content is really about me, it's about the things that I do. However, I realised if I didn't write an about me page, I was going to have to settle for the one Google AI was making up for me and it did not sound great! It was mixing me up with all kinds of people and content that had nothing to do with me.
So I decided it was best to intervene and write my own. If you want to know more you can continue reading below...
A little bit more about me...
My passions in life are nature and writing. In fact both balance each other perfectly. A walk in the fields, or the woods often inspires and informs my writing and the physical exercise combats the sedentary nature of putting pen to paper.
When I stopped writing novels because I felt I could not break through while raising young kids on my own, I turned to gardening, something I first started doing with my dad when I was around the age of 10.
When you suppress an instinct, however, and my dominant instinct was for writing, it manifests negatively on your life, your choices and your health, and everything in my life seemed to be deteriorating, so I knew I had to find a way to write again but this time, it had to be with balance. As my children grew up and my mind was free to plot and plan my future, rather than just surviving each day, I realised I could write and garden and create recipes without compromising on one or the other, but I was going to have to be more strategic. So that is where I am now in my life, gardening to counter the sedentary and also exhausting effects of writing but most importantly doing the things that I love the most with equal passion.