by Anne Skyvington | Nov 7, 2016 | Writing Topics
I’ve always been a bit of a risk taker in some ways. [See My Travel Journal: “From Paris to Russia and Back in 1968”]. Different cultures and new landscapes, tasting foreign foods, learning about faraway countries and their languages, have always...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 31, 2016 | Writing Topics
Sensitivity or Mental Illness? In our family, I was the overly sensitive one. Recently, I was rated high in intuition, feeling and perception, in a Myers-Briggs personality test. Fate had paired me off with a mother who had quite a thick hide. Small things upset me,...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 22, 2016 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Swedish love coach, Carolin Dahlman, gave a presentation to our writers’ group on the idea of networking in order to be published. Most of the large group of writers who attended were hoping to be published one day. Her message was that, in this fast-moving...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 15, 2016 | Psychology, Writing Topics
I must tread carefully here… I have to be careful when discussing the concept of left versus right brained people, as I’m married to a scientist, who also happens to be a very creative person. He was an actor when we first met, but has for a long time...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 15, 2016 | Books & Movies, Writing Topics
In the movie “The Great Beauty”, the 2013 Italian film by Paolo Sorrentino, a tourist, after taking photos in Rome, collapses and dies. The message is clear: See Rome and die! Like the protagonist in the film, my abode while in Rome (in my case, the...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 15, 2016 | Writing Topics
I was recently advised by doctors that I should take statins to lower my blood cholesterol reading. The statins lowered my reading quickly to half what it was before. Originally it was 8, then 7 after trialling diet and exercise for a short time, but it went down to 4...
