by Eugenie Verney | Mar 3, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
We’re at Day 17 of my 21 Days of Transience, and I am wondering where I belong… Why, I wonder, would I keep circling back to the concepts of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’? During last year’s challenge I explored why I’d moved around so much, and whether this has...
by Eugenie Verney | Mar 2, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Day 16 of my 21 Days of Transience and I am exploring how I ended up as a hospice trustee… I’d never set foot inside a hospice until my lovely aunt Betty was nearing the end of her life. She had been in pain for some time, mainly from the side-effects of the...
by Eugenie Verney | Mar 1, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Day 15 of my 21 Days of Transience takes me back to my earliest days in the workplace… My career — and I still get echoes of the ‘not good enough’ thing going on when I call it that — has bounced around a bit since I left school at 17 and jumped straight into my...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 28, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
For Day 14 of my 21 Days of Transience, I’m taking a look at one of my voluntary roles… These days I wear a variety of hats, some of which yield an income, some of which don’t. And one day a week I turn my small back bedroom office into a mini-call centre,...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 25, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
For Day 13 of my 21 Days of Transience I’m back in Buxton with my baby… It never really occurred to me to use a buggy to transport my daughter around when she was tiny. It just seemed much more practical to strap her to me, especially as we had Becka the...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 24, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
We’re at Day 12 of my 21 Days of Transience, and I’m back at school getting to grips with fear… The day I conquered ‘swingy legs’ I felt I could conquer the world. Getting there had taken what, to a child of around seven or eight, seemed like...