Darkness & Light Poetry Collection

by | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog

For the last few years I have been writing poems about my life. I always planned to create a poetry collection but it wasn’t until recently I decided to group them together and start editing. Darkness and Light is a collection of emotionally-driven poems about...

Why I Had To Walk Away From Teaching.

by | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog

Teaching has broken me. I remember the excitement, the childlike giddiness I felt when I first walked into the classroom as a volunteer a few years ago. I loved working with the children and as I watched the teacher at the front, I knew that I wanted to do that too....

NANOWRIMO 2018

by | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog

I think you have to be a special kind of crazy to attempt NaNoWriMo during your first year of teaching. Well, I think I might just be the right amount of crazy to attempt it. I completed NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2014. I wrote 50,000 words in one...

For The Love Of Writing.

by | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog

Today I wrote a short story, for fun! This may sound like a simple task for a writer, as writer’s write, right? Well, I did write A LOT once upon a time. I had notebooks full of ideas, I had motivation to put pen to paper and I really enjoyed the craft of...

My Apology.

by | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog

To anyone who reads and follows my blog, I have used Another Beautiful Rhyme as a platform to write about my life and my experiences for the past 8 years. It was initially a blog about my life as an aspiring writer for my university course but quickly became a place...

Twenty-Four

by | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog

So tomorrow is my twenty-fourth birthday. If I could use one word to reflect on the year that has passed between my twenty-third birthday and now, it would be strength. I have found a strength that helps me to get back up when I fall. I have found an inner strength to...