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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Part of my whole time to wake up resolution is to do things outside of my comfort zone, facing my fears of rejection, my own self...

So next week I will be sharing the stage with my Abbey family and I have to say we have an exceptional Principal cast for this years show...

This image kind of sums me up at the mo. I’m not quite sure what has happened over these last few months to me but I feel like I have...

There’s not been much writing going on this last month. I am annoyed… At myself…I guess like a lot of other writers and non writers I am...

I think my poem says all I want to today and a bonus, the audio version too. I hope you like it And a first for me, here is the audio...