I know how to write but making people laugh requires skills that are in a whole different league. As some of my readers may know, I’m doing the #66write challenge. It involves writing an article a day for 66 days (plus at least three tweets and reading 10 pages of…

Did I manage to write them in 20 minutes? Read on to find out… Apparently, writing “100 things in 20 minutes” is er… well, a thing. Fellow #66write-er Dave Sharpe has had a go at it. He was inspired by TzeLin Sam’s article 100 Things You Need to Know about…

Vancouver was an eye-opener in more ways than one. One miserable day at the end of November, I resigned from my boring job and bought a ticket to Vancouver, Canada. I had no idea what I was going to do there. Why Vancouver, I hear you ask. Why not Lima…

And can you have one without the other? As you read these words you are consuming content. As I write them I am creating. The dictionary defines ‘create’ as the act of bringing something into existence or making something new and imaginative. Children are natural creators. A piece of string…

Here’s what I said to some tricky ‘would you rather’ questions… When serial side hustler Jamie Northrup - Minimalist Hustler published his 10 questions about side hustles, I felt compelled to answer them. Would you rather get 1 million dollars or 1 million followers on your favorite social media platform…

Five possible reasons why you might want to say goodbye to it. They say a dog is for life. What about a side hustle? Let’s say you’re in your fifties and have spent years building up a successful side hustle. Maybe you are still running it alongside your 9–5. Or…

Every day, Alex Price publishes a one-word prompt on Twitter. It’s a cinquain prompt. For those of you who don’t know what cinquains are, they’re 5-line syllabic poems with a distinctive structure that goes like this: - 1st line: 2 syllables - 2nd line: 4 syllables - 3rd line: 6 syllables - 4th line…

A story of rust, rattle cans, and a squatting toad on wheels When you hear the word ‘Tahiti’ what is the first thing that springs to mind? Do you think of a French Polynesian island with sun-kissed beaches and a laid laid-back lifestyle? Lucky you! For me, the word ‘Tahiti’…

I’ll never forget being at the head of the breakaway group with Laurent Fignon on that scorching July day in 1984. Drenched in sweat and gasping for air, leg muscles tortured, the roar of the crowd blocking out everything but the sound of my frantically beating heart, together we strained…