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Tired. Can’t go On?

You are capable of so much more. Hello. Well we have survived the most horrific experience of our lives. We got through it. Editors and publishing houses aren’t sure we are ready to examine ourselves or the impact this has had on our lives. I disagree. When Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom The Bell Tolls,

Hope for our Beautiful Planet

Dear readers and followers. Thank for sticking with me. Today in Wales I saw a stunning amount of very tall, majestic trees. Thank you, Wales. Just to let you know that I am now on Medium writing with my pen name as some of you know is Hermione Wilds. See you there. Hermione

War in Ukraine: a Question of Feelings?

By Hermione Laake March 2022 Sometimes it takes just 24 little hours for something to change visibly on the surface, when underneath all manner of hell has been invisibly boiling. For now, as it was last year, we can continue to take photographs of peaceful and tranquil settings like this one, which I took last

The Power of Reading, and Flying Solo

I began reading to my children when they were in the womb. I would also read my books aloud deliberately. As a writer, you are told to read aloud as you’ll hear errors better that way. When my babies were tiny, I would type with them spreadeagled on my knees, and sometimes they would press