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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?

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.

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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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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write a blog.

Write a blog they say, I’d read it. OK I’ll write a blog then, this must bemy 75th attempt, surely it can’t be that difficult. But this time I google ‘Howto write a blog?” 1. Find your “big idea” – I rarely have ‘big’ ideas 2. Research Your genre – Firstly, I hardly know what…
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less tolerance, more wine.

new year, who you?

smoke & mirrors.

the lost years.

write a blog.