by Emma-Jane Barlow | Jun 13, 2020 | Poetry
Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels.com Tired hands, stone feet. Frozen in the cage of time. The minutes escape me. The hours turn to dust. The days wrinkle my skin. Another year of wishing, hoping, searching, for a pause button, a moment, to stop, to breathe...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | 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...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Nov 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
We spend a lot of time waiting for things from other people.We’re told from a very young age that we should treat others in the same way that we expect to be treated but sometimes, despite your best efforts with someone, you get nothing in return. In this...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | May 7, 2016 | Blog
It’s been a long time since I had a story to tell. Writing stories and poems has always been a big part of my life but over the past two years, I’ve been doing it less. I would only feel inspired in small doses and I felt like I didn’t have the...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
During the past few years, I have struggled with my mental health. I have General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), which means I constantly worry about everything and experience high amounts of anxiety for no reason at all. It took me a long time to accept that my anxiety was...
