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Gary Coulton's avatar

What, who, me?

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Francesca Bossert's avatar

Another interesting interview; I always enjoying reading them. I also went and read your story about being investigated... My God, what a nightmare. It can happen to anyone, for the teeniest thing.

As for "being more me", I think I'm rather transparent in my writing, sometimes possibly too much so. I don't know... Where I can hold back is in showing my privileged situation, because it's something I struggle with. I always hoped to be able to support myself financially through my creative endeavours, be it writing, making bags, crocheting bedcovers etc, but the clock is ticking and I doubt it's going to happen! I wanted to flip the script and allow my husband to give up his highly successful but very stressful job decades ago... but now he's retired and no longer stressed. I carry that chip on my shoulder. It gets quite heavy at times. He's never berated me for not earning much money, but I feel a certain guilt about it. So that would be my hang-up. I should write about it, as I'm sure I'm not the only one in this (very lucky) position.

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