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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n“About 80% of my working week I spend alone. I love it! I fully embrace the seclusion of my creative space to write, edit, create books, develop workshops, and run my creative support business. I interact with the world face-to-face to mentor, teach and give talks; then slink back into the silent hours that once more have me spinning webs of conception and narrative construction, for myself or others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Outside of that working week, I relish a different type of time: louder, busier, full of ever-debating teenagers, a boisterous husband, exercising, home-maintenance and organising. Weekends bring precious moments with friends, getting outdoors in nature, DIY, groceries, writing meetups or events, and visual storytelling via a flat black noisy screen that we all huddle around at night. Different hours to savour and appreciate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It sounds like a balanced lifestyle. Both loud and quiet. I love my life!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet there\u2019s one thing missing\u2026”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the rest of that article \u2013 and discover one way we might cope with the frantic and the loud that is the new normal \u2013 over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s \u2018Women\u2019s History Month\u2019! So the gracious Gillian Polack invited me to consider how we\u2019re living through \u2018epoch-changing times\u2019 in which \u2018all of us are making history\u2019, and I put my mind to thinking how the experiences of the last few years have affected my work-life balance. The results of\u2026<\/p>\n