by lauralizbuckley | 31 Aug, 2019 | Book Reviews
It felt a little odd to be reading this book some twenty-five years after its initial publication. Barack Obama wrote Dreams From My Father after having been elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, and it was republished in 2004 after he won the...
by lauralizbuckley | 23 Jul, 2019 | Blog Posts
The lovely Thinking Moon nominated my site for the Real Neat Blog Award! I’m so happy to have been nominated, especially by such a wonderful fellow blogger! Thinking Moon is a home for deep thinking, sustainability tips and appreciation of Buffy the Vampire...
by lauralizbuckley | 10 Apr, 2019 | Blog Posts
Recently I was having a conversation with some friends and Partner about a play with a premise I thought sounded really interesting. It centres around a lesbian couple, one of whom comes out as trans, causing her partner to have to re-evaluate where she stands in...
by lauralizbuckley | 6 Apr, 2019 | Writing
Do you think you could write 50 000 words in a month? Or, perhaps the more pertinent question, would you even want to? I’ve heard a lot of different thoughts on NaNoWriMo since I first encountered the idea a few years ago, and I feel like most of them have been...
by lauralizbuckley | 24 Feb, 2019 | Blog Posts
The internet can be a difficult place to disagree with people. In some places (naming no names, YouTube comments…) it can be hard to find civil conversation even when you’re basically on the same page as the people you’re interacting with. I have seen people...
