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...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 20, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
Day 17 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m looking beyond the bogeymen to the role of fear… There were no ogres in my family. Nobody I feared, nobody I was warned about, nobody with a reputation for actual harm, bodily or otherwise. The same applied at...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 13, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
We’re at Day 13 of my 21 Days of Courage writing challenge, and today I explore a little ritual of my father’s making… Spelling was a really big deal at homework time when I was growing up. So much so that my father would actually decline to comment...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 10, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
Day 9 of my 21 Day of courage and I’m exploring my grandparents’ legacy… I never knew either of my grandfathers — they had died before I was born. Of my paternal grandfather, I know next to nothing: he disappeared, basically. My father’s last contact with him —...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 5, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
We’re on to Day 7, I’m a third of the way through my 21 Days of Courage, and I’ve turned on the radio… It’s Sunday morning and that meant just one thing when I was growing up — The Archers Omnibus. Nothing much was sacrosanct in our house, but suggest to...