About

This blog began after years of pondering what if? When I moved with my partner to Italy, I found myself jobless, Italianless and with few prospects. It began messy, more as a therapeutic process to get my thoughts out of my head. Overtime, I learnt photography, design and how to write more sophisticated articles.

I’m from Manchester, UK, from a small suburb called Cheadle Hulme.  

I used to want to be a vet.

I took a gap year working and then traveling to Ecuador for 3 months. I’ve loved Latin America ever since.

My sports of choice are tennis and running.

I’m a morning person and eat fruit in the AM.

I taught English in Brazil for 3 years and now teach Portuguese at the University of Denver.

I love house plants, there’s 15 of them in my 600 square ft apartment.

Born in ’92.

I moved to Brazil to study abroad in an exchange program in 2014. During this time, I met my now husband, Henrique. We married 4 years later in England and had a repeat party a year later in the same place, but with friends and family flying in from around the world.

Yes, I graduated from University of Liverpool in Latin American Studies. Half my degree was languages (Spanish and Portuguese) the other half culture and history.

This is my 10^th year studying Portuguese and I still make lots of errors!

I read between 30 – 40 books a year, mostly for fun. I became a significantly better writer after I took the time to read other people’s works.

Some excellent books for writing direction are Ann Handley’s Everyone Writes or Stephen King’s On Writing. Ash Ambirge’s website The Middle Finger Project is an endless resource for freelance writers, she also just published an incredible book with the same name.

Once you start digging around, you’ll find any book, blog or journalist’s memoire will tell you to write every day at a designated time. Practice is the only way.  

Mostly I learnt the process of graphic design from Linkedin Learning courses. This is how I came to grips with the Adobe software. Skillshare also has some valid courses. I suggest checking out whether your workplace offers any of these subscriptions for free.

For digital art and resources I use Every-Tuesday, the owner Teela also offers some courses on Skillshare.