Right, in half an hour I’m off to the Crows Feet Dance Collective dress rehearsal for our new show, Hakari. And because I finally grasp the fact that I have Aphantasia, I will be dancing with some new insights into how I learn the necessary choreography compared with how others learn. At last I understand why I’m […]
Continue reading
Lately a flurry of articles have drawn attention to the phenomenon of aphantasia. This is a recently named brain condition (not a disability) of those who cannot summon up mental pictures in their mind’s eye. (Some have “total aphantasia”, which affects all the senses, but that’s not me.) Realisation slow and fast: that’s me too A long […]
Continue reading
Well, that didn’t take long. Two weeks after ending my 10-year involvement with Contented.com I had a pretty clear idea of my next project. To announce it here is ridiculously premature, but too bad: I have begun to create video courses for Udemy.com under the umbrella name of Write Into Life. This idea has been lurking […]
Continue reading
Thank goodness for Ruby (not her real name), my almost-teenage granddaughter. When she visits on Mondays after school, she often takes me to the local playground and sets challenges. This spurs me on, and I might even secretly practise on Saturday mornings when I take 3-year-old grandson Finn (not his real name) to the very same […]
Continue reading
This week, I discovered something wonderful: the simple act of smiling can make a difficult learning task easy and fun. The Crows Feet Dance Collective is at that scary moment, ten days before the first performance of a new show. Our sub-group is a wee bit fraught as we struggle to clean up technique on two new dances, both […]
Continue reading