Day twenty five of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. Being left-handed has been a problem throughout the ages. Perhaps a mild irritation would be a better description or even a slight inconvenience. Either way I have been thinking about whether or not handedness will become a bigger or smaller problem in the future. The answer … Continue reading Generation Y
Xenophobia
Day twenty four of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. I’m getting very close yet X is a real corker. There are only about one hundred and twenty words in modern English that start with the letter X compared to the 1,025,109.8 in the language. (This is the estimate by the Global Language Monitor for January … Continue reading Xenophobia
Writing
Day twenty three of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. Oh dear. I’ve tried to write with my left hand. I have ended up with the hand-writing of a four year old and the vocabulary of a fifty four year old. It is as if I am back in infants’ school, sitting at a too small … Continue reading Writing
Viable
Day twenty two of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. Could it be viable if I had to use only my left hand? Quite often I have found, while trying to avoid using my right hand, I have left it hanging limply by my side like a hunk of meat. Being handed does not mean that … Continue reading Viable
Unable
Day twenty one of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. I’m now at number 918 in the list of challenge entrants and we’re at the business end of the month. The last six letters of the alphabet are the hardest. Words beginning with U to Z noticeably thin out in the dictionary. Today though I’m going … Continue reading Unable
Toothbrush
Day twenty of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. If there is one area within the house that was going to cause me problems it has to be the bathroom. My whole toilet has been a left-handed learning curve. Let’s start with the obvious. I’m not cack-handed. I’ve tried but never will be. I’ll keep trying … Continue reading Toothbrush
Scissors
Day nineteen of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’ and I’m struggling with scissors. They warrant a blog piece of their own. I’ve been on this earth more than half a century yet dread when the time comes to cut my fingernails. They grow at an imperceptibly slow pace, the same rate apparently as the spreading … Continue reading Scissors
Religion
Day eighteen of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’ and I’m straying into unknown territory. I would not regard myself as a religious person but I have already done that bit. I have very little knowledge of any of the religious texts yet it was a book by AJ Jacobs called ‘The year of living biblically’ … Continue reading Religion
Quantum
Day seventeen of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. The letter Q is always one of those difficult ones. What words in the English language could I use to convey something about handedness that begins with a Q? Quixotic perhaps but queer is definitely a not. What about Quidditch? Maybe I could weave some clever reference … Continue reading Quantum
Penitence
Day sixteen of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’. There is something almost penitential about what I have been doing over the last month. Trying to work with my unusual hand has been a way of denying myself. Life has basically been too easy as a right-hander and it is time to pay the piper. I … Continue reading Penitence
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 