I am achieving my dream. I am the master of my craft. My style. My technique. A thing that is uniquely mine.  I am here. I am me. I have done it. 1.     Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is a great play. How does each scene go from there to there? Why does it make so...

Playlist Last night I was gonna call this week’s blog I’M A GODDAMN FUCKING HERO. It’s one thing doing your playlist and dancing into the night. You bust new moves. You have space on your kitchen floor. Your reflection in your kitchen window. Nobody is watching you. So you add a bit of...

Fantastic Quote.Adam posts our HOME write up on Linkedin.https://homemcr.org/whats-on/linda-brogan-my-mum-is-white-exorcising-half-caste-ghosts-8n1sAn academic and clinical anthropologist based in Scotland, who brings an ethnographer's curiosity to psychotherapy and mental health, Dr Salma Siddique,...

LIVE. MY MUM IS WHITE: Exorcising Half-caste Ghosts is now live on HOME’s website. https://homemcr.org/whats-on/linda-brogan-my-mum-is-white-exorcising-half-caste-ghosts-8n1s. Spread the word.Ghosts.Wednesday, just gone, 23.07.25, the mixed-race participants meet for the first time.• Freelance...

1. To Curate or Not to Curate So, as you do, we are having a curator. Then the curator isn’t working out. We seem to be seeing things from different angles. Some strategic moves are made. First by curator. Then me. Then producer. It’s dead simple really. HOME want to see their press release a...

Our exorcism will take place at midnight on Sept 17, 2025. I look up what phase the moon will be in. The Waning Crescent phase. I look up what that means. • 24.81 days old and 22.09% illuminated, with the illuminated surface decreasing.• After the Full Moon and before the New Moon.• The...

My Inaugural NewsletterSorry I Have Taken So Long I asked some of you months ago would you receive my newsletter. Then I went on a huge necessary tangent looking for the best provider. Found Ghost.org. Not for profit. No algorithms. Don't have to pretend I am helping people while we all walk to the...

First I would like to apologise for missing 2 weeks and a day — internet was shocking on Pelee Island so I gave up and gave it a break. Second I would like you to know I also write on Reddit at R/Mymumiswhite and Typeshare as me. Both are practise for my newsletter. June 29th 2025 This is...

Where? I am on Pelee Island. 1.5 hours ferry on Lake Erie. Living in a wood cabin. Tiny wood burner. Next to the lake. Dark skies.  Bike. Ride to a nearby campsite' scalding hot sensational showers.Saturday.  Rode the 30K around the island. Sunday. Indigenous theatre in a...

02.03.25 I blogged excerpts of my Art's Council England application for MY MUM IS WHITE. Congratulations to us. We got the dough. Here is the amazing, A*, Art's Council appraisal. Outcomes, Elements and Inclusivity and Relevance* Is the project as described in the application likely to make a...

I'm turning this blog into my newsletter. I’ll write as I work on 8-major projects' retrospective how-to/memoir. Titled: WALK INTO YOUR MADNESS. I’m only inviting people who I get along with personally. Who enjoy my work. Whose work I enjoy. I officially become a pensioner this week....

Draw a square. Overlay it with a diamond. Close up. Each station needs interpretation like tarot cards. Astrology.  A reading.  A divination.The Fallen Angel is the protagonist. The protagonist must have a problem. How the fuck do I write this blog? Where do I start? Will anyone want to...

I am a firm believer in The Secret. It changed my life. Even though I am artistically successful up until 2014, I don’t know whether I am coming or going. I feel venomous about the arts business. My heart is broken. I have therapy for the first time in my life.  2014. Hayley at number 1 gives...

I am learning a lot from Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer. Things my elitist brain thinks are below a creative. They are making me feel settled in myself. Better prepared for sending WALK INTO YOUR MADNESS book proposal to agents and publishers. I’ve blogged about these so...

Tribe. I am looking for my tribe. I am looking for people who speak my language. My entire artistic journey has been an odyssey to find that tribe. People who should on the face of it be in my tribe are usually assimilated to the dominant tribe. The dominant tribe is white, male, middle-class. Their...

Number 1. Money. By madness I mean your authentic artistic self.I am currently listening to The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman. These kinds of things get in my way and make me frightened. Money makes me frightened. I have been holding off being 100% me for years. Getting waylaid....

Platform I’ve finally understood what platform means thanks to these 2 great blogs.Anna Sproul-Latimer On "building your author platform" & the single most difficult mindset shift required for publishing success.Jane Friedmann A Definition of Author Platform.The image above is my idea of...

Last week I realise my book is more than 12-words. HarperNorth has a tiny submission window. I work night and day. Here is the introduction. Working Title: 4-dimensions. 8-stations. 12-words.  A pilgrimage to the oracle of you.  Sample Blurb:I love that the universe follows...

I've applied for a residency in Finland. Writing it has made me realise that my how-to-write book is not just about 12-words. But includes 2 other techniques I have perfected over the last 30 years. 4-dimensions. And 8-stations. The image that showed me my book is made up of all 3 techniques. Work...

I have began to write 12-Words. My book that teaches my 12-word technique. I'm doing 4 main strands of research. Book cover. Done a few deep dives on pinterest. This led me to old fashioned material feeling book covers. That house topics I loved as a kid. Like botany. And trees. And pressed flowers....