Hitting your head against a brick wall is a profound phrase and concept which is coming to me at the moment and came to me at a meaningful moment in the Rex Whistler Restaurant in…
I woke up super early this morning to great advice from Instagram. Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you die today. #James Dean. It was posted by iamnicholschow who is apparently…
Well, that was a play on words as, course, it is not a day that will live on in infamy – it is just my birthday. Infamy shall become a word for today. Infamy, a…
It is five in the morning here in San Francisco California and I am awake and alert. Yesterday morning, while writing the blog in the breakfast room I got three messages. The first – Alexis…
I love the guests in this hotel and the conversations we have over breakfast, it is such a great way to start of the day. One man, an author, has a solution to the current…
This morning was a ‘normal’ morning in that I woke at seven, not three. Today is the weekend and on weekends special treats are prepared for breakfast. Yesterday the treat was pancakes, today the treat…
It is breakfast, the buffet breakfast aat my hotel. As usual I chat people up – handing out my blog card and conversing on different topics. The most interesting people stay at this hotel. A…
Faithful readers will know that the impetus leading to the inception of alexismcbride.com was the desire to get even with those in London who had harmed me. Foremost was Julie Wheelwright’s Creative Non Fiction programme…
I came down to the front desk in a bouyant mood for reasons which will soon be revealed. Me: Have you heard the good news? MM. What good news? Me: The most important good news….
I became rather fixated, fascinated by something written by Samuel Beckett. It has been a talisman for most of my life, written in notebook composed before I was twenty. It began to prey on my…