I’m Josie George. I’m an author and artist living in the West Midlands and, thanks to an atypical body, I rarely go anywhere at all.

This blog is a personal chronicle of that not going far: windows into my small life, into my thoughts, my stumbles. It’s about joy, pain, stillness, creativity and truth-telling, going slowly, making good with what you have. It’s here that I share some of my learning, my forgetting, my process and play, observations and experiments. I aim to publish fortnightly but often can’t. I’m enormously glad to have you here.

Josie George is the author of the highly acclaimed A STILL LIFE, a memoir about life as a chronically ill mother with a big heart and wide-open eyes. She's also a regular columnist for The Guardian Country Diary sharing a different view of nature from her urban neighbourhood, often from her mobility scooter. Josie spends her days finding doorways into remarkable places right where she is (even if that's often in bed). She believes the ordinary world around us has something to say and she's determined to listen.

Josie is represented by Jenny Hewson at Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency. jenny@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk

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