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Author: Ailsa Gillies

Journalist & author.
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it’s time to ramble on

join me for #13 in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading it’s time to ramble on

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 31, 2026May 31, 2026Leave a comment
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you can’t start a fire without a spark

join me for #12 in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading you can’t start a fire without a spark

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 24, 2026May 23, 2026Leave a comment
Editorial

Between Costumes

For those who are in-between chapters in their lives, this poem holds the key to what you must do while waiting. A surprising but simple order: be like a child in the waiting room at a doctor’s office. Play. Continue reading Between Costumes

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 22, 2026Leave a comment
Coffee Off the Clock

the sweet wine of success

join me for the eleventh in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading the sweet wine of success

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 16, 2026May 15, 2026Leave a comment
Coffee Off the Clock

we can be heroes

join me for the tenth in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading we can be heroes

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 9, 2026May 9, 20262 Comments
Editorial

Ignored Explorer

What happens when you over-identify with one side of yourself? There’s an explorer in all of us, sometimes it just gets ignored. Continue reading Ignored Explorer

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 6, 20261 Comment
Coffee Off the Clock

i’ve come to doubt all that i once held as true

join me for the ninth in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading i’ve come to doubt all that i once held as true

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesMay 3, 2026May 3, 2026Leave a comment
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hello, cowgirl in the sand

join me for the eighth in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading hello, cowgirl in the sand

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesApril 25, 2026Leave a comment
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now i know how joan of arc felt

join me for the seventh in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate and following my writing dreams. Continue reading now i know how joan of arc felt

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesApril 19, 2026April 19, 2026Leave a comment
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i’ve been searching for something

join me for the sixth in a series of weekly musings about life since leaving corporate & following my writing dreams. Continue reading i’ve been searching for something

Unknown's avatarAilsa GilliesApril 11, 2026May 15, 2026Leave a comment

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