http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/how-one-woman-gave-up-8107842 News Real Life Stories BBC How one woman gave up her high-powered career to climb mountains 12:01, 3 JUN 2016 UPDATED 12:13, 3 JUN 2016 BY MAGS MACKEAN Mags MacKean gave up her high-powered career to pursue her dream of climbing mountains – only to find she got just as burnt out following her […]
The nature of adventure: embracing risk. Mags MacKean (c) Many dream of the thrill of stripping life – and all its pressures – to the basics: heading off on a long distance hike. The rewards are in its promise: relying on strength, stamina and the vision to see a route through – to complete a […]
When The Door Jams. Short story by Mags MacKean Weariness makes her confused – at least that’s how she explains boarding the wrong train. She is too surprised to feel anything like annoyance. That comes later. For now, she is washed out, spat out, gazing at an unremarkable platform without the promise of anything to […]
I felt the tug of curiosity as soon as my friend told me: the largest Yew forest in the UK. “Perhaps in Europe”, Daniel added. “A grove with some of the oldest trees in the land – so wide you can’t begin to hug them.” Daniel was also a ‘local boy’ – which accounted for […]
Forwards To The Beginning: Being In the Source Of Time Time is fickle as well as inexorable. Describing it can never capture how it is truly experienced – because those moments relived are held in memory. However time’s passing is measured – as lines etched on my face, the quicksand of seconds, minutes and hours, […]
I was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Late Night Woman’s Hour with Lauren Laverne (tx: Friday 26th Feb 2016), with veteran columnist Katharine Whitehorn, Author Madeleine Bunting, and shepherdess and mother-of-eight, Amanda Owen. Inevitably we each had a unique take on “Me Time” – what is it and what makes us yearn it? How […]