Sometimes I write terrible poetry to pass the time. The words hit you, imprinted on your mind yet never sinking in. Tears burn your face as you retract from the world. Diaphragm freezing. Heart racing. Stomach turning to stone as nauseau loiters, curling your numb body tighter. Thoughts racing- a feeble attempt to comprehend rejection. Continue reading Another Terror
So WordPress, long time no see eh? I last posted almost a year ago, and admittedly it has been 2 years since you had the TLC you deserved, and so much has happened since then, and I’ve had to work through it all without you by my side which was just weird! The start of this week saw me seriously asking myself if I should start writing again. I wanted to, deep inside, more than anything. I wanted to return to that little corner of cyber space that gave me a channel to vent my borderline insanity and outrageous lesbianistic … Continue reading To Blog Or Not To Blog…
I spent my weekend at Enterprise North East Scotland’s Enterprise Challenge 2014. The Enterprise Challenge is an annual even for people from Grampian and Tayside who are aged 18-30 and either run their own business, are starting up their own business or are interested in starting up their own business in the future, and poses participants with a series of physical and mental challenges to replicate the emotional rollercoaster of self employment. I’m not going to tell you what shenanigans we got up to, just in case you fancy having a go yourself, instead I am going to share with … Continue reading Things I Learnt This Weekend.
June has been earmarked as ‘Migraine Awareness Month’, and this is a cause which is close to my heart. To read more about my personal migraine story, you can read A Hole in the Head. Anybody who suffers from the disease will understand the frustrations, and the importance of the unofficial strap line “It’s more than just a headache”. In this post I want to introduce you to a young woman who I never met, yet who broke my heart a little. Her name is Melissa Dwyer and, despite the fact that migraines are not a ‘life threatening’ illness, she … Continue reading Migraines: The Mental Muck Up
So I had a little ego trip last night, and now this blog has it’s own Facebook page! REGRETTE RIEN! So come over, feed my ego some more and press the little ‘Like’ button! http://www.facebook.com/kirstythroughthelookingglass Continue reading Facebook
Another poem from the hard drive. A little more festive, this one was written for a church competition. It won. My Sparkly Christmas A poem by Kirsty Brown It sparkles in the daylight It sparkles in the night It’s everywhere I look around It’s even on the ground My favourite is the silver But there’s other colours too Gold, purple, red or blue Multicoloured, what’s for you? In class we use it everyday When Christmas comes around The green’s a tree, a shiny blue sky And there’s silver sparkly snow! I find it on my trousers My coat, my shoes-my … Continue reading My Sparkly Christmas
So I just plugged my external hard drive into my shiny new computer for the first time, and clicked on a folder titled ‘IMPORTANT STUFF’. This hard drive, I should warn you, is mainly home to photos, videos and documents from my first laptop purchased circa 2007. I replaced it in 2011 when I returned to college, because commuting with a 17″ laptop is not really practical. Anyway, the first thing in my IMPORTANT STUFF folder was this poem I wrote about Fyvie Castle’s library in sixth year. Here it is, exactly the same way it was submitted in 2008. … Continue reading Bound
Always remember that you are not better than anybody else. Maybe you are older than them. Maybe you have more experience than them. Maybe you have children. Maybe you are divorced. Maybe you are married. Maybe you are promoted. Maybe you have a career. Maybe you have a title. Maybe you’ve worked hard your entire life. Maybe you’ve never had to work a day in your entire life. Maybe you inherited millions. Maybe you built your empire. Maybe you’ve overcome a terrible illness. Maybe you’ve won an award. Maybe you have a hundred friends. Maybe you’ve adopted, or fostered. Maybe … Continue reading All For One & One For All.
It is weird to feel that I have done so much writing recently, and yet none of it has been on here. I’ve had this story kicking about in my head since last July, and over the months it has turned into a ridiculous amount of scribbles on various pieces of scrap paper. Fed up of constantly losing, then finding, then re-losing these pieces of paper I decided to actually put some physical structure to this story. So now that it has actually started to take shape in the English language (as opposed to scrawlings that only I could decipher), … Continue reading Storytime!
So last night I was just scrolling through Twitter when a tweet caught my eye. It was a link to a news story which I haven’t read, but the headline described a female politician wanting to outlaw the selling of sex. Now, my first thought was that they didn’t need to name the politician for it to be obvious that it was a female trying to get this law put in place. I’m incredibly judgemental, feel free to judge me back. Something about this headline bothered me, and was still bothering me when I woke up this morning. I know … Continue reading (Not) For Sale
Kirsty Through The Looking Glass 