I had a dream from the age of six, but by the time I was fifteen, I had given someone else the power to make sure it would never happen. And they never even knew. That dream? To write a novel. A throwaway comment from an English teacher got stored in my head as the […]
How To Do Something You Thought Was Impossible
Have you got a secret dream that has spent too long on the back-burner?This has been a big week for me. I’ve done something I never thought I would ever, ever, ever do. I published my first novel. For 30 years I believed I couldn’t write a story, all because of a throw-away comment from […]
#MeToo The Real Reason Why I Left Engineering
The viral spread of the #metoo campaign has made me wish that I had known, fifteen years ago, that I was not alone. I might have told someone about the sexual harassment. I might have said ‘no’. I might not have laughed it off and thought it was part of my job, as a rare […]
