Posts by Sally Moss
Paper planes and honest work
Last week, I encountered a former ‘professional garbage designer’. I’ll explain… I first came across the intricate paper art of Suhail Shaikh in autumn 2023, when I visited his exhibition at the Atkinson, Southport, UK. I was there again recently to hear him talk about the exhibits and also the work that got him where…
Read MoreTom Taylor, Director, Northorpe Hall Child & Family Trust
Thanks for your clear, knowledgeable amendments and excellent communication throughout. Your work has really improved the document. It’s been a pleasure to work with you.
Read MoreProject manager, global testing, inspection and certification company
Thank you as always for all your work and support. It’s been a real pleasure as always, and every year I learn something new.
Read MoreIndependent non-fiction author (life writing)
I think I may have been spoilt by working with you … I’ve been very impressed by how you’ve done this, consulting me at every stage and being extremely considerate.
Read MoreJohn Turner, retired consultant physician and memoirist
Your editorial comments are insightful, very helpful and if I may say so demonstrate an impressive grasp of the manuscript.
Read MoreResearcher, creative industries (writing on equality, diversity and inclusion)
Thank you so much for your work on this – I can’t believe how much we missed! You have made it so much clearer and more accurate.
Read MoreWhat’s green and funny?
I love comedy, intentional and otherwise … Humour is forever a massive asset in the quest to maintain sanity and joy, and to speak truth to power.
Read MoreFun and flexibility in the era of climate crisis
……The idea, then, was to take workshops into schools and community venues and do some tailored improv to boost the local supply of realism, inventiveness and quality of life.
Read MoreAfter trauma: writing for truth and justice
Many times over the years, people have recommended I read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. (Or, to give it its full title, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma.) The book lays out a modern understanding of trauma and describes therapeutic approaches that…
Read MoreOf good deeds and doughnuts
To die extremely rich is disgraceful. So said Andrew Carnegie. More precisely, he said, ‘…the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’ Carnegie was a successful industrialist and later a philanthropist, and his philanthropic legacy includes thousands of public libraries, as well as vast investments in education and research. The very first library I loved was…
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