Bright Life! Bright Life!
Hello my little lightbulbs! A year has passed and so, like Michael Bublé at Christmas, I have risen to grace you all with my presence. My goal was to write to you all sooner than fourteen months… thirteen is still a win, right? Istanbul, April 2025 I hope that you’ve been keeping well! How have [...]
Hello, my little lightbulb! I’m here to accept my award as the most sporadic blogger of 2022 - *begins emphatic bowing and collects roses from stage floor*. My acceptance speech will begin: Blogging has taken a back seat for me over the last few weeks, through no fault of its own really. I promised myself [...]
Hey lightbulbs! A few months back, you may have noticed the not-so-subtle changes made to this beautiful blogosphere. Yōkina Living became Akarui Lifestyle and, me being the amazing chaotic wonder that I am, there wasn’t much explanation as to why that was. Well...the wait is over! This post is going to chat about the reasons [...]
Where my average Joe’s at? My losers. Failures. People who don’t win pub quizzes or get promoted; who don’t get drinks bought for them or have 10k followers on social media; who maybe struggle to say the right thing sometimes (or all the time); who always seem to be going through something; who are late [...]
Hello my little lightbulbs! You guys know that I love an early rise. Getting up early and cracking on with the day gives me such an energy boost: I'm more productive, active and positive when I'm up early and I'm always striving to be up as early as possible . This wasn't always the case [...]
Hello there my little lightbulbs! I’m back in the UK after spending a couple of months in Guernsey, a small island between the UK and France (not a town near London like I originally thought). What started as a short visit blossomed into a longer working holiday. I got a job as a bartender, travelled [...]
If you've heard of ONE OK ROCK then this blog's title may be ringing a few bells for you. If not, then you're like me before I went to Japan and learned of the bilingual lyrical genius of Moriuchi Takahiro. I came to love this band for multiple reasons. Their pop-punk music nostalgia-whacked me back [...]
Grief is a very flexible pain; it forward folds and back flips around our life, stepping or hopping away only to roll back into us again. We’ve talked a little about the stages of grief, but today’s focus isn’t on how grief affects us, but how we can affect grief. Extending from our opening bendy [...]
When we're having a rough time, the first thing we're told to do is to speak about it; talk it through with someone; a problem shared is a problem halved. This is good advice. We do need to talk out our feelings. But, saying it and doing it are different things and it can be [...]
We’ve been waiting a year for this day to come- the gradual, yet seemingly final, end of lockdown restrictions. Some countries have already experienced this, some didn’t have to and others have a little longer to wait. Whether this is something you’re going through, will go through or have gone through - the consensus expectation [...]
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