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The Proactive Dreamer
Am I a proactive dreamer? Probably not, I guess I tend to be the 'so that didn't work out the way I planned so what's next?' kind of...
Mary Fletcher
Apr 153 min read
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Finding My Way
It has been a funny few months, I have found myself rattled by thoughts, old thoughts, old niggles, opening that box of darkness I...
Mary Fletcher
Mar 195 min read
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Believing In The Beautiful
This week I shall be treading the boards once more with my Abbey Family in one of my favourite Disney Musicals. (OK that's a lie it is my...
Mary Fletcher
Nov 20, 20243 min read
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Embracing The Unknown
Well hello there friends, I promised a new blog update. Life has been a bit manic since I left the NHS in May. Has it been all roses? No....
Mary Fletcher
Jun 27, 20242 min read
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Embracing the Journey
So my friends, this is the week everything changed. I worked my last shift employed by the NHS, do I regret it? No. Yes the future is...
Mary Fletcher
May 22, 20243 min read
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Changing The Narrative
by Cara Alwill Leyba I have been doing a lot of soul searching recently. Maybe this is a midlife crisis, who knows, but what I do know is...
Mary Fletcher
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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Belonging
Hello everyone, Here I am. I’ve spent many weeks wondering what to write, who wants to hear the ramblings of a 45 year old tired and...
Mary Fletcher
Nov 25, 20235 min read
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Raise Your Freak Flag High
Well hello my friends, it has been awhile since I posted anything here so thought I would rectify that. A lot has happened in the interim...
Mary Fletcher
Nov 28, 20226 min read
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FORWARD
Hello my friends, as you can probably guess things did not go my way and I found myself knocked not only on my bum but totally floored...
Mary Fletcher
Dec 15, 20204 min read
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Travelling
As with the rest of the world at the moment, I haven’t done much travelling of late, except for the journeys to and from work and the...
Mary Fletcher
Oct 19, 20203 min read
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The Whisper
I don’t know why I chose to write this today of all days, the 8th anniversary of my daughter’s death but I wanted to share this whilst it...
Mary Fletcher
Jul 31, 20203 min read
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Ebb and Flow
So it’s “that” month and I have to be honest this year is testing me in a lot of ways, I guess my positive outlook on life only takes me...
Mary Fletcher
Jul 16, 20203 min read
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Soul Music
So the writing brain has been dormant for awhile with everything that has been going on and Bob was well and truly keeping his distance,...
Mary Fletcher
Jun 16, 20202 min read
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The Nurse’s Plea
So you might think that in the midst of a lock down I would have plenty of time to be creative, to write, to put my thoughts to pen and...
Mary Fletcher
Apr 5, 20203 min read
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Watching the raindrops fall
It has been a long time since I just sat and watched the raindrops fall, watch as they quietly hurry down the window pane in some unknown...
Mary Fletcher
Mar 1, 20203 min read
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The Hollow
I was asked recently which of my poems is my favourite and truthfully one of my favourites is this one, even though I wrote it this month...
Mary Fletcher
Jul 31, 20192 min read
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Igniting a Fire
So I have been absent for a little while due to one thing or another, trying to get myself back to some semblance of normality since my...
Mary Fletcher
Jul 9, 20192 min read
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Righting My Ship
So my last blog was all about my listing ship, how depression had me firmly in it’s clutches and how I was attempting that whole rubber...
Mary Fletcher
May 17, 20194 min read
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Fractured
So where have I been? To quote the Beatles… “Here, there and everywhere.” Which is exactly where my mind is right now. I’ve spoken about...
Mary Fletcher
Mar 3, 20192 min read
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Sparking a Light
Well another year has been and gone and the last time I wrote anything on my blog was last year, just before I took drastic action,...
Mary Fletcher
Jan 6, 20192 min read
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