Brevity is next to godliness. There is tremendous power in making your case with the fewest – but best chosen – words possible.
Author: Michael Carty
Editor ♦ Writer ♦ Blogger ♦ Artist ♦
May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
Do the most with the least
What is the most that you can do with the least?
MJCarty snapshots January 2026
Sun, snow and spuds! A few personal highlights from January 2026, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
The gift of (personal) disaster?
Moments of crisis, of personal disaster, can sometimes prove to be the impetus for necessary, positive and transformational change in your life.
Time to open and change?
If each of us has a limitless capacity to do good, why not use it?
New page
Welcome to 2026. May this brand-new year in your life and in all our lives prove to be the very best yet.
MJCarty snapshots December 2025
A few personal highlights from December 2025, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
MJCarty.com: Top 5 posts of 2025
The five most-read posts of 2025 on MJCarty.com. My heartfelt gratitude to you if you have taken the time to read any words on this wee blog of mine.
What you are about to become
Welcome to the roaring twenties. What lies around the corner for you? You can only know what you are going through now, and what you have struggled through before. You can never know what you are about to become.
Nirvana live in London 1989 (#GigTicketMemories)
Nirvana live at the London Astoria Lame Fest, Sunday 3 December 1989: Gig ticket-inspired memories from my first ever grunge gig… plus my surprise discovery 36 years later that there exists a photograph with both Kurt Cobain and me in the same frame.
