What better rule to use for the first one in what feels like 50 years. Hi! Happy New Year and Merry Christmas (for the past 4 years) I have written posts for days, but have been deleting them just as fast. It's amazing what fear can do to you. I became so self-conscious of the judgment I'd get for my lack of writing skills that I simply stopped writing. Since the last blog post, I've graduated, moved back to Cape Town, got engaged (in Zimbabwe), taught at two different schools, been to Australia to meet my Godchild, got married, went on honeymoon to Canada and Ireland and have settled into my dream job. I have also been battling the lessor spotted (actually probably as common as the house ant but totally underdiagnosed) Hashimoto autoimmune disease, which I am finding incredibly hard to explain to people, but that's a post for a different day. For now, I just want to check in and hopefully, by posting this, I'll be rid of my fears and go back to posting b