Take care of yourself.

Hi, I’m Carmen. Part-time English teacher at a Sixth-form form college, private tutor, and TES author. I write poetry, and I blog regularly.   I am a wife and a mother.

• Christmas 2025
  The end of another year. What a year full of change, challenges and chaos. Christmas a time of joy and hope but also a sense of loss as each year… Read more: Christmas 2025
• A wedding ring
  What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? The oldest thing I am wearing is my mum’s wedding ring. That ring symbolises the union between my mum and dad for 54… Read more: A wedding ring
• The Running Class
  When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? Yesterday, I joined a running class.  What possessed me to walk into a group of strangers… Read more: The Running Class
• Nostalgia
  Deadly disease of a broken heart, Delaying feelings that might depart. Looking at love better in long lost past, Apprehensive of giving all too fast. Nostalgia, always full of desperate… Read more: Nostalgia
• Maintaining Good Health
  What are your biggest challenges? Healthy Eating I have made a good start to the year by cutting down on over processed foods, especially crisps. Finding time to eat a… Read more: Maintaining Good Health
• Six Triple Eight Netflix
  What was the last thing you did for play or fun? Today was the start of my Christmas holiday so I decided to watch the Tyler Perry movie.  I must… Read more: Six Triple Eight Netflix