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less tolerance, more wine.
Read more: less tolerance, more wine.She’s proud of the woman she’s becoming. Life hasn’t exactly rolled out a red carpet for her—it’s been more like a bumpy backroad with potholes, unexpected detours, and the occasional emotional landslide. There were times she felt like she was falling apart quietly behind closed doors, smiling in public while paddling like hell beneath the…
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new year, who you?
Read more: new year, who you?I can’t remember the last time I could breathe. Breathe. The simplest necessity of life. Yes, I took in oxygen for the purpose of, well, not dying, but not to live. I just needed enough air to get me through. After a tumultuous 2021, I had high hopes for what 2022 was going to bring…
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smoke & mirrors.
Read more: smoke & mirrors.I’m a runner. Very much not of the athletic kind, wine run maybe? When things get hard or overwhelming, I struggle to compartmentalise and rationalise things in my mind. It can all be too much. I’ve mentioned before I feel things deeply – A blessing and a curse, a great and a not so great…
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dating food.
Read more: dating food.Since 2017 I have captured 20,889 photos in my camera roll. Clearly, I enjoy snapping away, capturing anything and everything. Moments to take away and reminisce over later. I love the yearly memories that pop up. Amongst the strategically angled selfies, far too many pictures of Matt (I see why he gets annoyed), and of…
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the lost years.
Read more: the lost years.The last two and a half years have given more to the authors of history books than it has to the writers of diaries. Decades from now scholars will have a wealth of material for their accounts of this pivotal time, but when the people who lived through it look back on the timelines of…
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one world.
Read more: one world.It baffles me the world we’re currently living in. I don’t even think baffles is the right word? Flummox? Astound? Discombobulate? Whatever…. I really really really could have never foreseen that I would deem freedom sipping a latte in a takeaway cup while perusing the grocery isles, not having to reapply makeup after every mask…