The Pretender

by | Apr 20, 2019 | 0 comments

Yesterday I wrote that I once ran a blog called ForShianaAndMischa.com, a resource for my daughters. I stopped working on it and gave up ownership of that domain a while ago, and revisited it yesterday for the first time in ages. What’s there baffles me: a...

You To Me Are Everything

by | Apr 19, 2019 | 0 comments

I love being a dad: telling terrible jokes, teaching Shiana and Mischa, my daughters, the history of Watford FC, and trying my best to set them up to live happy, healthy lives. They are the reason why I write books, why I blog and why I tie autobiographical stories to...

Private Life

by | Apr 18, 2019 | 0 comments

On a podcast I listened to a few months ago I heard a line that struck a chord: People connect with stories they see themselves in. That’s handy, I thought. I’ve got a few stories, a lot of them about things that other people might see themselves in. They’re often...

Eterna

by | Apr 17, 2019 | 0 comments

Having worked on my book this morning I realise more and more that it’s about more than one central subject. It’s not just about my life and work online, tips and knowledge and how you might be able to avoid some of the mistakes I’ve made. It’s also about my...

All The Things She Said

by | Apr 16, 2019 | 0 comments

A very good friend asked me recently about how his daughter might be able to make money from her Instagram profile, @britishthrowbacks. It had 73,000 followers. Less than two weeks on, it has almost 82,000. Amazingly, the account’s only been up and running for...