About

Josie George is a writer, art student and single mum living in the Midlands.

This blog tells the story of me and my three-year-old son, Kai through words, and pictures, sharing mine and Kai’s journey as we both grow up and and try to figure out the world around us, something we take it turns to be better at.

Avid knitter, serial starter-again, professional napper, den-maker, piss-taker and accidental clown, I am generally shorter than people imagine, determined, flawed and usually to be found wandering around in the sunshine taking photos of stuff and sharing random thoughts on Twitter, where I have oddly popular following.

I’m currently studying for a Bachelors Degree in Painting, in between endless walks back and forth to nursery, during which I’m usually required to be either a pirate or Optimus Prime which is FINE by me. In between times I also take lots of photographs, collect treasures, and if there’s any energy left over I write stories that let me pretend to be someone else for a while.

I’m also enjoying running a creative side-project, The Twitter Key Project which is proving delightfully popular and fun to do thanks to support from the Twitter masses at large.

Here on the blog I run a (mostly) fortnightly Writing Workshop for any bloggers and writers in need of a little inspiration, and am a proud advocate of Save the Children, with whom I travelled to Bangladesh with in August 2010 as part of a ground-breaking social media campaign to raise awareness of issues surround maternal and child health in the developing world.

Creative, daring, honest and different, I hope, Sleep is for the Weak aims to celebrate those things about us, stories, flaws and talents, that make us unique. I really hope you enjoy reading.