by Eugenie Verney | Feb 11, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
On Day 3 of my 21 Days of Transience, we head for rural Gloucestershire… I never thought to ask my aunt exactly why her husband wanted to be buried in a Gloucestershire churchyard. Born Vilmos Levy into a family of Budapest doctors and intellectuals, he was...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 10, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
On to Day 2 of my 21 Days of Transience, which held me at bay for most of a day… When you’re not sure how to start, start anyway. The whole transience piece is clearly at odds with the whole concept of calling somewhere ‘home’. Or maybe it isn’t, not entirely....
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 9, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
And we’re off. It’s Day 1 of this annual writing challenge imagined into reality by Megan Macedo, founder of Be Yourself Marketing and a remarkable philosopher and writer. For the fourth time, I’m joining a group of writers from across the world who forget from year...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 8, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
One brief flurry of activity apart, I have added nothing to this blog since Megan Macedo’s 2020 writing challenge. That was never my plan, but as last year’s 21-day roller coaster of words drew to a close in late February, the coronavirus storm clouds were well and...
by Eugenie Verney | Apr 21, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
It would be really easy to go off on one and deliver my take on Covid-19. And yes, it would be my take so not quite like anyone else’s — and after all, we’ve all got our own take on this. Oh yes. But despite the absolute shedloads of research I’ve been doing, and the...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 25, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
And we’re here — Day 21 of my 21 Days of Courage and time for reflection… I didn’t have an end goal in sight when I started out on this intensive — and intense — journey into some of the farther reaches of myself. All I wanted was to arrive here — on the...