Published on 12, July, 2020
Do any of you feel a lot younger than your years? I'm 30 (?!). I feel about 12 a lot of the time. I walk, and feel like running, there is a spring in my step, an energetic need to jump, to dance, to giggle. Conversely, I sometimes get an extreme sense of immobility, when my legs feel like lead and are hard to move. It's either one or the other, with me. The intense energy tends to come first thing in the morning, and often after an interest binge. I feel about 5 ha!. How can I be 30? Adult? What?
I'm 58, and often feel as naive as a 12-year-old. On the other hand, a large part of me is glad that I haven't grown up. Keeping in touch with my inner child is what feeds my imagination and my writing.
Can I ask, what do you like writing about?
Anything and everything. I've written since I was a child. It's been my obsession - both my escape from the world and my way of making sense of it. Stories, poems, scripts, novels, articles. My most recent thing has been an account of my caring for my mother during the last six months of her life. I've posted a snippet here, if you're interested...
Another piece of writing...