Emma Kavanagh

This post is later than I had planned for it to be. The burnout that I have talked so much about has come for me too. No. Not burnout. The psychological hibernation. Remember what we said when we talked of the Antarctic, of wintering over, of the ubiquitousness of burnout symptoms. Can something really be … More The truth about hibernation

I don’t know about you, but I feel that we’ve learned a lot this past year. We’ve learned what we are made of, that we can be faced with the impossible and can survive. And it seems that, at this point in our global nightmare, the population has split itself into the ‘everything is fine … More The hero stress response

So, we had the long weekend. Which was great. By great, I mean it involved painting, because of course it did. We moved into this new house six months ago, and pre-move, my best line was “Oh, it’s great. Yeah, it needs nothing doing to it”. Hahahaha…yeah…turns out that when you by a house after … More The best of plans