Marlene Hauser

Marlene Hauser

Blogs

These blogs are a chance to share with you more personally how I feel about things going on in my life and/or in the world at large.  Sometimes they are directly related to my books, but most often they are not.

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A Still and Silent Night

Hi Everyone, I’m not sure why this month’s blog started out as a bit of a tug o’ war, but it has!  Whether to write about hot water bottles (hot water bottles? Who wants to hear...

The Quiet Season

Radiators humming, dark mornings, fires at night, and the very odd and unexpected—yes, believe it or not—tornado in England, that’s my November...

Gratitude Go Round

Hi Everyone, An attitude of gratitude. I can’t recall where I first heard that phrase, but I do recall thinking that it was a pithy little saying that got me through loads of challenging times at odd...

Down the Rabbit Hole

Hi Everyone, Media addiction. Okay. So I said it aloud—or at least typed it. Media addiction. Call the devil by its name?  Media. Addiction. What is it exactly?  Well, to be frank, I’m...

Track, Trace and Travel

Hi Everyone, So finally here in the UK, Post-Pandemic (sort of), we are able to travel. If I hadn’t been invited to Ibiza by a friend, I probably would not have gone. Who can interpret all the...

Ai-Da the Artist

Hi Everyone, In the course of the past year, I have met Ai-Da. Ai-Da? Ai-Da who? Ai-Da the robot, the humanoid, a machine that creates—an artist. She (if I can actually call her that) creates (if I...

The Big Pause

I’ve gone for a full-on, multi-lap, outdoors swim twice since lockdown easing, and both times it has felt brand new—as if I’d just discovered something I never knew before...

The Mystery of Inspiration

Hi Everyone, Inspiration. Where does it come from? I am often asked. Like many other authors, I don’t really have an answer. I am sure this is the case with most artists in whatever field they create...

The Perfect Destination

Now that we have reached Stage One in the gradual relaxation of Lockdown Rules in England, I have allowed my extended daydreaming to run at full tilt...