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  • 8 Ancient Greek words for love – with illustrations and famous love quotes

    8 Ancient Greek words for love – with illustrations and famous love quotes

    Does having just one word for the unimaginably huge and complex concept of LOVE limit our ability to understand and express what it is? The Ancient Greeks had eight separate nouns to identify the different types of love. In English, we have just one. In order to clarify the kind of love we mean, we […]

    Zoe

    May 23, 2021
    Home & Relationships
    fiction, heartbreak, language, linguistics, literature, love, marriage, philosophy, quotes, relationships
  • 5 reasons rainy Sundays are good for the soul

    5 reasons rainy Sundays are good for the soul

    1. You don’t have to feel guilty about staying inside all day. Nothing gets done on rainy Sundays. 2. You can wear unattractively comfortable clothing all day long. Not a scrap of denim in sight. 3. Endless cups of tea. 4. You can enjoy old lady activities like reading, arts and crafts, baking, or doing […]

    Zoe

    May 16, 2021
    Wellbeing
    rain, rainy Sunday, relax, rest, Sunday, Wellbeing
  • The terrifying, world-altering power of every tiny decision you make

    The terrifying, world-altering power of every tiny decision you make

    As you’ll know from every movie, cartoon, TV show and book with a time travel plot, the seemingly small decisions we make on a daily basis can have a surprising amount of influence on the future. It’s the ripple/butterfly/domino effect – whatever you want to call it. With every choice, a tiny lever clicks into […]

    Zoe

    May 2, 2021
    Nature
    activism, activist, change, climate change, conservation, environment, free will, plastic, recycling, single use plastics
  • Today a squirrel shattered my self-esteem slightly

    Today a squirrel shattered my self-esteem slightly

    There’s a lady who frequents my local park. She has unkempt white hair and she carries a lot of plastic bags on her mobility device, as though she lives in some kind of rustic way (I imagine a derelict old house packed with towers of horded junk, but this is mere conjecture). Every day I […]

    Zoe

    April 26, 2021
    Nature
    happiness, Nature, park, self help, self-esteem, squirrel, Wellbeing
  • Lying beneath a cherry blossom tree, I remembered that incredible experiences are everywhere

    Lying beneath a cherry blossom tree, I remembered that incredible experiences are everywhere

    Last night I watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix, a documentary about a filmmaker who, on the verge of a mental breakdown, gives up work to free dive off the Western Cape of South Africa every day. Wetsuitless, he slips into the cold, turbid waters of the South Atlantic Ocean every day (without exception, whatever […]

    Zoe

    April 25, 2021
    Nature
    blossom, diving, free diving, my octopus teacher, Netflix, ocean, parks, spring, Sunday, Travel, uk, wildlife, yoga, yoga teacher
  • What is it like being a copywriter? Pros and cons

    What is it like being a copywriter? Pros and cons

    These are some of the top phrases (or keywords, as copywriters call them) people Google when they’re daydreaming about what it must be like living the glamorous, coveted lifestyle of a copywriter: is being a copywriter a good career is copywriting worth it what is it like being a copywriter is a copywriter a good […]

    Zoe

    April 24, 2021
    Creative pursuits
    careers, content writer, copywriter, copywriting, creativity, editing, editor, marketing, professional writer, writer, Writing, writing tips
  • Why are outdoor pursuits so white?

    Why are outdoor pursuits so white?

    I had to scroll through seven pages of white people gazing over mountain vistas before I could find a stock hiking photo featuring someone of colour. And it’s not that my image search is powered by a neo-Nazi algorithm (I hope); it seems to be representative of what’s happening out there in the real world. […]

    Zoe

    April 15, 2021
    Movement, Nature
    activity, bame, black, blm, climbing, equality, hiking, mountains, Nature, outdoors, Travel, walking, white
  • Happiness is only real when shared

    Happiness is only real when shared

    Last week, over a few days (because I’m an easily distracted Millennial), I watched the film Into The Wild for the first time. If you haven’t seen it, pop it on your ‘to-watch’ list because it’s one of those films that’ll embed themselves into your being – in a really good way. It’s beautifully scripted […]

    Zoe

    April 11, 2021
    Nature
    backpacking, cinema, film, happiness, hiking, hitchhiking, into the wild, introvert, lockdown, movies, pandemic, solitude, survivalist, Travel, Wellbeing
  • Every time I don’t like how I look, I strike a pose and take a photo

    Every time I don’t like how I look, I strike a pose and take a photo

    The embarrassed, self-deprecating Brit in me does not want to write this post. The woman who’s fed up with hating her own body because it doesn’t subscribe in every way to the standard model of beauty, does. I recently wrote about how I’m making a real effort to accept my body after a lifetime of […]

    Zoe

    April 5, 2021
    Body image
    beauty, body confidence, body positive, body positivity, diet, dieting, mental health, Nutrition, plus size, weight loss, Wellbeing
  • Knowing Nada – a short story

    Knowing Nada – a short story

    The black streets of Zagreb were shiny with rain. Above the traffic, the noise, the movement, almost-frozen raindrops ricocheted off the grand building facades. Their silhouettes reared up against the dead black sky as tall as the cliffs that marked the edge of the island Ana Horvat called home. But unlike her beloved coastline, these […]

    Zoe

    April 3, 2021
    Creative pursuits
    communism, croatia, fiction, historical fiction, politics, short fiction, short story, socialism, yugoslavia
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