Review of Books Read This Year - 2025

My reading in 2025 was an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, myth and history, learning and loving. I started the year reading George Eliot's biography prompted by my 2024 rediscovery of Thomas Hardy when we visited Dorchester (or should…

A Mother's Love

Nothing hurts like the relationship you don't have but wish you did. I'm writing this as a piece for me so it's going to be honest but who knows what I might do with it and where it might end up so if I've censored it slightly I hope you understand…

Still a Man's World?

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I have a female shiba inu who has just turned 20 months and had her first season. So interesting to observe male dogs behaviour around her especially those who hadn't been neutered. I couldn't help but compare it to meetings I have had where…

Managing Change

I always thought of myself as someone who loved change. Change is what makes things better and I have always been a fan of Grace Hopper's quote that the most dangerous phrase in our language is 'we've always done it this way'. Then Covid hit…

Being Strategically Selfless

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My best friend got me a book on female friendship for my birthday last year (along with a t-shirt that says 'Happy Christmas from Nakatomi Plaza' which together tell you all you need to know about our friendship!) This book is an anthology…
Nourishing food for replenishing body

Replenishing Me

2022 is not a year I fancy repeating. We were forced to leave our new home in December 2021 and lived in temporary accommodation until August 2022 when I moved house and met my MSc dissertation deadline in the same week! I also spent the summer…

The Hygge Life

My sister-in-law writes a travel blog. It's a really good read. Her and my brother have a real sense of adventure. They travel to exotic places and do exciting things. Safari. Scuba dive. I read the blog and see the photos and wonder why…

From Mind To Heart And Back Again

If someone were to ask me which of my skills I use most often I would say my ability to translate communication. And I don't mean from Japanese to English. I mean from operational to visionary. From technical to creative. Often from male…

Balance of Heart, Body & Mind

I have recently written a book to share a snapshot of my personal development journey (available in print on www.sarahwindrum.co.uk and digitally on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077DVD5R2) I had written all of it by the end of 2016…

Censored

I struggle with my command of our oral language when it really matters. As an English Literature graduate I could write all day about my feelings, but when it comes to speaking about them I am reduced to drivel. What I say very often won't…