Liza Stirlinglass
Art Imitating Life
Last night I was treated to a fabulous night at Scottish Opera's Don Giovanni. My host and I agreed throughout the performance that the...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
Help Stop the Book Banning!
Girl, Woman, Other, the 2019 joint Booker Prize winner created by the articulate and brilliant writer Bernardine Evaristo, has recently...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Nov 20, 2021
- 2 min
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
To be honest if this book hadn't been selected as the October read by the book club I go to, I am not sure I would have picked it up. ...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Thanksgiving
When I lived in Canada, the Thanksgiving holiday, every second Monday in October was one of my favourites. A time to share food and...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
42 years later
I was 22, my stomach churned as I first looked over the New York Skyline and then down. I was standing in one of the viewing windows...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Aug 15, 2021
- 2 min
How is your Happy?
Earlier this week , a statement from an interview on the radio grabbed my attention. The interviewee stated that "lack of happiness is a...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Do you know who you are really reading?
I usually try to stay out of conflicts on social media and in public spaces. Having trained as a family and civil mediator I know how...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min
The not so "lost" generation.
There has been a lot of headline grabbing news since the pandemic written about young people being the "lost generation" due to the...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
Cats, Muffins and the murder of Isolating
Having stayed home since March 2020 like the majority of the UK, I finally had a wee adventure and visited friends in England for a week....
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Liza Stirlinglass
- May 24, 2021
- 3 min
Secrets and Lies.
The public verbal crucifixion of Martin Bashir this past week, reminded me why I made the career change out of television in the mid...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Lives well lived
A good friend posted the image of Charlie talking to Snoopy on her Facebook feed this morning. It seemed apt given the funeral of HRH...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
On this day, in 1957
On this day in 1957 my father would not have been allowed into the maternity room at the hospital, Dr. Spock was telling mothers to let...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
Strong Women - Shh... It's Our Secret
Thankfully the days of women depicted as damsels in distress in most literary fiction is over and #LizzieChantree, in her new book -...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Human Nature and The Sea
As a response to her poem Tides, the poet Mary Oliver responds to her own words with this reflection: The Poet Compares Human Nature to...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
Getting Published. Small press, the big 5, or Independent?
Publishing is old - according to wiki by the year 1501 over 8 million books had already been printed, newspapers began in 1603 and...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
F**king Shite - not again!
Yes, those were the words that flew out of my mouth when the consultant told me I had breast cancer, for the second time. He took it...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Dance and Tummy Tingles
My debut crime mystery Murder on Morrison will be available as an e book on Amazon from Sunday 28th and the Paperback launches March 1st....
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
#Rumi - The Guest House. Welcoming Difficulty.
Last week I was invited to host a session for The Gossip Collective https://gossipcollective.weebly.com/ using creativity as a strategy...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Values in a time of Crisis - Confessions of a Yeller.
The bumpy road of diplomacy, avarice and being right was central to all governments in the UK, on the Island of Ireland, and Israel this...
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Liza Stirlinglass
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
Words that Count
'The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers,...
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