by Sam Dounis | May 3, 2019 | About Sam, Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Uncategorized
Yesterday I went back to school. Not to learn, or so I thought, but to give a talk about blogging to some pupils at a local primary school as part of their World at Work Week. As it turns out I probably learned as much as they did. First of all, primary school...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 13, 2019 | About Sam, Thoughts and Musings, Uncategorized, Writing
One of the benefits of working for an organisation is that someone else has decided the components of your job, and your role is to execute that to the best of your ability. When you work for yourself, you have a lot of decisions to make around what you do and how you...
by Sam Dounis | Oct 2, 2018 | About Sam, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
Back when I was wee, when I had to eat whatever was put in front of me, I longed for the freedom of choice. Freedom to choose not to eat ‘that’, but to eat something else instead. Freedom to choose to eat at a restaurant, instead of at home. And of course,...
by Sam Dounis | Jul 6, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Project Joy, Stories, Thoughts and Musings
This morning I woke up to a text from my friend, urging me to rise and shine, announcing that it was Fridaaaaay, and thanking me for being a good friend. It was the best text ever. Mainly because I’d woken up feeling really crap about myself. I haven’t...
by Sam Dounis | May 22, 2018 | Kimber, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Uncategorized
Kimber has a wonky leg. It all began a few weeks ago when she tried to chase someone else’s ball. If you’re a regular reader of my blog, or of my cartoons, you may already have an inkling that Kimber is very fond of a ball. She has two favourite kinds of...
by Sam Dounis | Apr 9, 2018 | About Sam, Blogging, Edinburgh, Kimber, Stories, Thoughts and Musings
For the last few years, the husband and I have shared a car. For most of the time this worked quite well, but over the last few years he’s been using it a lot more, and it’d become a bit of a bone of contention. So when the lease came up for renewal last...