My guiding motto is from Theodore Roosevelt:
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Contact me: pearcelucy@yahoo.co.uk
My name is Lucy, and I am a full time mama, freelance writer and sometime teacher. I am also the contributing editor at JUNO, a soulful UK-based natural parenting magazine. My column, cunningly named Dreaming Aloud, has run in JUNO since Spring 2009. Recipient of the Writer's Bureau runner up Writer of the Year 2010, I contribute regular features to Modern Mum magazine, The Irish Examiner, JUNO and online to Rhythm of the Home and The Anti-Room. You might also have seen my work in The Guardian Family section,
My ethos:
I have developed a strong ethos for my writing:
I write for good: to inspire, educate or inform, and just occasionally to amuse;
I will not exploit others, nor expose others, including, and especially those who are close to me,
writing is my choice and passion, not theirs;
I will ensure an adherence to truth: my own truth and good research and fact-checking;
I will use my writing to explore new ways of living better;
I will try to respect other view points whilst honouring and expressing my own;
I will use my writing to help to create networks and communities amongst like-minded people;
I have three home-birthed children: Timmy (5), Merrily (3) and Aisling (1).
I am married to Patrick, environmentalist, woodworker and photographer extraordinaire who is responsible for a number of the special images on this blog.
Born in Ireland, educated in the UK, I am now settled back in rural East Cork, Ireland, living a slight bohemian existence and our own version of the Good Life in The Pink House.
It was studying History of Ideas at university which fired me up for a life of questioning. In my child-free years I travelled around the world with my husband, including living and working in Kyoto, Japan. Partly because of this, and partly due to my bohemian upbringing, I am pretty open to considering different ways of doing things and rather anti the status quo.
It was studying History of Ideas at university which fired me up for a life of questioning. In my child-free years I travelled around the world with my husband, including living and working in Kyoto, Japan. Partly because of this, and partly due to my bohemian upbringing, I am pretty open to considering different ways of doing things and rather anti the status quo.
My passion is living philosophy. Not just the mental activity of philosophising, but actively living it personally and within my community. I aim to help build creativity, sustainability, fulfillment, greater awareness and self-sufficiency in individuals, families and communities.
My ethos:
I have developed a strong ethos for my writing:
I write for good: to inspire, educate or inform, and just occasionally to amuse;
I will not exploit others, nor expose others, including, and especially those who are close to me,
writing is my choice and passion, not theirs;
I will ensure an adherence to truth: my own truth and good research and fact-checking;
I will use my writing to explore new ways of living better;
I will try to respect other view points whilst honouring and expressing my own;
I will use my writing to help to create networks and communities amongst like-minded people;
I will write only that which I am passionate about
I recommend only that which I am passionate about and to that end have affiliate links with some companies that I love.
