What if everyone could hear everyone else’s heartbeat?

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sound of our heartbeats through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar?
Being able to hear your [...]

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Tree

 I’ve been walking past this tree almost every day for quite a long while now, but I only recently stopped to look at it properly. It has provoked a few thoughts in my mind, which I thought I would share with you. I realise that the things I’m going to write will probably sound trite [...]

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Beauty

I visited Teuchter’s blog the other day, and read her post referring to Aphra Behn’s post about the beauty of teenage girls, so then I read Aphra Behn’s post, too. It’s thought-provoking, you should go and read it.
I don’t think I was beautiful as a teenager. Even if I were to look back at photographs of me aged [...]

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Almost a day in the life

On the train, I read the Metro and then I pray. I think about whether my prayers are good enough and if there really is a proper way to pray and if there isn’t why do people write books about how to pray? If the people who write the books are right then I’m not [...]

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Scribblings

Despite evidence to the contrary, I do sometimes plan my blog posts in advance. I wrote some notes on the train today (12 June). Here’s what the notes turned into:
This morning I was pondering on why it is that sometimes we wake up feeling happy and other times we wake up feeling, if not exactly [...]

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Plugged in (again)

I’m plugged into a 24-hour ECG monitor (otherwise known as an Ambulatory Electrocardiogram) at the moment. I had an interesting weekend, during which I experienced some strange heart-beats, so though I’d better ring the hospital. One of the good things about the hospital I attend is that they have a specialist team who deal with [...]

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A short whinge

I’m not doing very well this week. I haven’t achieved very much, not that I’m supposed to be achieving things, but I still feel that I should be doing something useful, that isn’t sitting about watching television/listening to the radio/faffing about on the computer. I have done less of this latter this week (that is [...]

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Meet the parents

As regular readers will be aware, I spent last week at my parents’ house. Although there were some highlights, like the two choir practices, playing the piano, walking and seeing relatives and friends, I found the week surprisingly stressful. It was a bit like visiting a foreign country and not knowing the customs or language of [...]

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The internal negative voice

Hazel wants to know why I don’t always have the confidence to write about the things on my list of voice-related topics for May’s NaBloPoMo (see comments on this post). Somewhat serendipitously, if not particularly cheerfully, answering her question gives me an opportunity to write about the ‘internal negative voice’, which was one of the topics on my list. [...]

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Learning to look forward: Resolutions (or things I’d like to achieve) 2-10

2. Successfully work in a new role in the Library of Doom
I’m going to be covering someone else’s job for a term  in the new year, working as a Faculty Liaison Librarian, and I really want to do this well. It’s going to be quite different from my job in Reader Services and, although I hope I won’t [...]

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