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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 26 – Looking Inside Oneself.

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Michael

Image: by Salvador Dali Looking inside yourself is fraught with danger. If you are honest you see a whole bunch of stuff you may not be all that keen to acknowledge. No matter how much you wish for it, the … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 25 – The Truth and Story

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Michael

There is a lot of truth in the saying: “Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.” Sometimes the truth can hard to fathom, and we have to trust and have faith in what we see … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 24 – Love and Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Michael

Its that time of year again when we look towards one we love with thoughts of what can we do to express the love we feel for them. When you live in a fantasy world its easy to imagine the … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 23 – Cyril Rum

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Michael

You might say Cyril Rum was an eccentric. He lived alone at the end of the street, his yard was unkempt, his friends were one Mildred Thrup his next door neighbour and even she would say she wasn’t all that … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 22

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Michael

I live at number 22. And literally, apart from family and friends, no one cares. You read this and you think isn’t that nice, he relates to the number 22. As for time I don’t agree that it doesn’t heal. … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 20

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Michael

All around me are reminders of the past. The children, in particular, are ever present as a memory of a past I’d rather forget especially the bits I feel ashamed about. I’ve worked to be a good father, to be … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 18

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Michael

There was never a defining moment apart from the feeling that it was the end and that things had to change. Like so much in life it was easier to think it than do it. To leave a marriage after … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 17

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Michael

1 A teacher and writer of English and Drama, a parent, naïve and yet willing to learn all I could, the perpetrator of numerous mistakes where I learned eventually to pick myself up off the floor and move forward.   … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 16

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Michael

I refused to do the things that nice, domesticated girls were supposed to do, and spent all my time in my grandfather’s library. It wasn’t that I was rebellious or anything it was more that I was not interested in … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 14

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Michael

This weeks prompt gave me much to think about. On the one hand, you could argue that as I am now retired aspirations as such no longer matter, employment-wise. It’s more about enjoying each day as it comes past. So, … Continue reading →

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