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I’m Susan, living in Northern Ireland with lovely husband, Chris. A while ago we ran off in a van to travel around Scandinavia and Western Europe for a whole year. Bliss. Now back on solid ground and excited about sharing big thoughts in this small world.

Also excited to be working with a talented editor on my travel and health memoir – watch this space, it’s with my agent as we speak.

And if you like what you see and read, you can now buy me a cuppa! Click the button below and THANK YOU for your support, it means a lot x

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What are you putting out there? Can we really control our destiny? Say it and it’ll happen…

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

Manifest

“Just say what you want and it’ll happen.” Since a 2020 TikTok trend (of course) involving ‘putting stuff out there into the universe’ we’ve all been talking about manifesting things to make them happen in our lives. It’s pseudo science, no doubt, but as with most trends there’s something intriguing about it. I’ve always believed …

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January 7, 2023January 26, 2023

What’s New?

Happy New Year. Here’s my helpful list of new things (they don’t involve much effort, honest).

December 9, 2022January 26, 2023

Good For You

Can we say ‘good for you’ and mean it? Tricky as it is to find joy in someone else’s success, it’s worth it. Bring on the freudenfreude please. It’s delicious.

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A Face for Radio

Since reading out some great poetry as a lockdown activity and sharing it online I keep getting requests to do more things with microphones. So here’s a collection of some poetry readings and some older blog posts in audio format too. Make yourself a cuppa, press play and take a minute or two to breathe and think. Enjoy!

As the tagline suggests I have thoughts now and again. So it seems appropriate that I can now share them with the nation now and again as a contributor on Thought for the Day with Radio Ulster.