• About Me,  Blog Posts - Ways of Escape

    From 2024 to 2025: Some Small Changes

    I have been maintaining this blog for some time, something of a labour of love for someone who likes writing. A little creative escape. The last year has been quite intense through MS progression and treatment and keeping the blog has helped me to make sense of things, to be quite honest. It is also good to make changes to keep things fresh and so I will start 2025 with a slight change of format for the blog. This will relate to categorisation of posts, the menus that support that categorisation and the pages that provide background to the categories. There is very little change in design and a short…

  • Blog Posts - Multiple Sclerosis

    Making a New Start… Again…

    It feels like I write about a new start with this blog quite frequently. Certainly in the last couple of years. This time, though, it feels a little more real, more urgent in a personal sense. The thing is that a lot of that change has been an attempt to escape Multiple Sclerosis. I realise that it is not as simple as that. I cannot escape it. So I need to try to embrace it. Or, rather, embrace the change that is coming with it. Crossroads These changes mark a kind of crossroads in life. I am not that old, only forty-nine. Yet the physical change is enough that I…