Who am I?
Mother, wife, homemaker, shopkeeper, part time poet and occasional writer, I often find myself wearing many different hats as I try to juggle the many different demands on my time and person.
Most of my life has been spent in Africa. My parents emmigrated to South Africa when I was but a wee child, moving later to Zimbabwe when it was still known as Rhodesia. Later still, when troubles and terror returned to my beautiful country, my husband and I packed up our life and children and moved to Zambia, where we spent nearly eight years before finally moving to the UK at the beginning of 2008.
This past year has been an interesting one - often trying and frustrating as we all try to accommodate the new changes in lifestyle that this move has dictated. Sadly my writing has been the biggest casualty in this continental shift, with inspiration and time both being in short supply. Mostly I like to write poetry - poetry about the things I see around me or the happenings in my life. More often than not they tend to the humouress as there is nearly always a funny side to just about everything in life if you just look for it.
2009 must be my Year of Discovery - I've spent half a century on this planet, generally doing what others expected of me and conforming to what is considered as 'normal'. I'm tired and a little resentful, I look back and see years wasted doing what had to be done and never making space to do the things I may have wanted to do. Surely I deserve to be a little selfish now and then too?
So . . . I invite you to join me on my journey of discovery. Come play in the fields of inspiration and paint pictures in the sky with me - who knows what great things we may discover together?
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