Posts by Sally Moss
After 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…
Read MoreAre you a (climate) realist yet?
Would you say you’re a realist? According to Oxford Dictionaries, that would be ‘A person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly’. On 30th June 2020, I took part in the Climate Coalition’s virtual lobby. I spent an hour on Zoom with my MP and around twenty…
Read MoreCommunicating climate change: from words to solutions
In the most recent episode of BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth (14th January 2020), author Michael Rosen spoke to George Marshall of Climate Outreach about communicating climate change in ways that are relatable and true to life. They know their stuff, of course, and listening to their conversation was half an hour well spent.…
Read MoreThe power of speech, and speaking to power
How we communicate about the climate crisis matters, of course – the words we use and the occasions on which we choose to deploy them. I live in a part of the world (the UK) already affected by climate change but not yet overwhelmed by it. Most climate-related death and disease, most of the climate…
Read MoreLetters to the Earth
The Letters to the Earth project has gathered contributions from citizens acclaimed and obscure. In their letters they’ve expressed their fears and dreams to our home and host planet in a time of rapid extinction rates and climate breakdown. Mine, written in snatched moments during a busy week, was short but nonetheless personal. I’ve included…
Read MoreT.note author, T.wai – Torino World Affairs Institute
Please send my grateful regards to the engaged person who did this great job – all my thoughts are perfectly expressed in the text, and I am absolutely happy.
Read MoreLorraine Charbonnier, Junior Research Fellow, T.wai – Torino World Affairs Institute
I see Sally as an enabler of my work … I know that irrespective of tight deadlines or other challenges, her work is always rigorous.
Read MoreJames Johnson, Head of Regional Programme, Local Energy North West
Your knowledge of the subject matter from an editor’s perspective was valuable in helping us to weed out industry jargon and make a complex subject accessible to the layperson.
Read MoreN.T. Taylor, Powerhouse Community Development Worker, Newlands Regeneration, Bradford
The newsletters you produced were not only accurate and free of errors, but readable and pitched at the right level for the audience.
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