Welcome to Week 2 of my Blogging Clarity Challenge (click the link to catch up on Week 1)!
It’s a great opportunity for you to get to know me better :-), and for me to pinpoint what makes me – and my blog – tick.
Each Friday I will address one of these 7 questions:
- What interests do I have?
- What experiences (good or bad) have I had?
- What expertise and skills do I have?
- What are my passions?
- What gives me energy?
- What do I talk about with my friends?
- If I could write about anything, what would I write?
My Blogging Clarity Challenge 2: What Experiences (good or bad) have I had?
The Good:
- Marriage to my wonderful hubster – 24 years and counting!
- Finding my love of writing, and all I’ve achieved with that – running Footprints magazine for 15 years, published 3 books, hundreds of magazine articles, blogging, and now it’s an integral part of my “day job”.
- Packing up all our worldly goods and caravanning around Australia in 2001, when our kids were 5 and 7.
- Raising our two children (now 20 & 17).
The Bad:
- My battles with Depression.
- My short-lived teaching career.
- Having a parent with a bipolar disorder, a personality disorder and other mental health issues.
- Not having my Dad around when I was growing up.
- Three stepfathers and numerous “uncles”.
- Experiencing homelessness.
- Breaking off an engagement.
- Being made redundant in 2012.
- Raising our two children.
The Ugly:
- Being physically abused as a child.
- Raising our two children.
I adore our children, but I have to say parenting has not been without several challenges along the way – hence why it falls under the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
I’m sure I will think of other things after I’ve hit “publish” on this post … but these are the things that immediately spring to mind.
So now it’s your turn – what experiences do we share?