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Welcome to the first instalment of the monthly linkups for 2023! 2022 has been a trying year for many of us with chronic illness and disabilities. What are your hopes, dreams and goals for this new year? Come share and support each other in the January 2023 writing prompts, which you can find below! What […]
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It’s time for the August writing prompts, so I hope you have your virtual pens ready! 🙂 If you recall, I shared the concept and awareness in the June linkup, that I needed to ‘make time’ for the things that mattered to me. Ironically, July flew by, full of errands and little tasks that stole […]
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Don’t say it first – how did we even get to May already?! It’s time for the May writing prompts in the blink of an eye. Is it an age thing, the lockdown, or do we all feel time speeding by just the same? I haven’t even had a chance to crank out my April […]
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It’s time for the March writing prompts, believe it or not. And yes, I say ‘believe or not’ just about every month 😉 What have you been up to, these first three months of the ‘new’ year? It’s a lot of ‘sameness’ I guess, with the mutating COVID strains, and the need to remain cautious […]
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New Year Beginnings New Year, new beginnings. New Year, new year resolutions. New Year, new me, new you. To be honest, I’ve always viewed it as just another day, with different numbers flipped on the calendar. I spent New Year’s and New Year’s Eve working, doing ‘normal’ stuff, but indulging in some fancy meals as […]
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Set Fear Alight, and Take That Flame of Hope into the New Year Here we are, at the start of a new chapter in our lives, with the January writing prompts to help organise some thoughts. 2020 has now been dubbed the year of the pandemic, where life stood at a semi-standstill for the modern […]
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Yes, I bet we all can’t believe it’s the end of the year, and already time for the December Linkup! The pandemic and the unpredictability of it all have made it a long, drawn out year. Yet at the same time, that mundaneness also becomes a blur and before you know it, you are living […]
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Unlocking In July the lockdown laws were slightly eased in Singapore. We can now gather in groups of up to five, although social distancing and mask wearing are still enforced. What this meant was that I could finally work at cafés again, which is one thing that lifts my mood and increases my productivity. Although, […]
It’s time for the August Linkup! The year certainly has flown by, not just for those of us who are perpetually home or bedbound, but also for society in general with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. Who knows when it’ll be over, all we can do is to wait it out; take precautionary measures both […]
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