The perfect patient mask slips

Sunday Blog 191 – 29th June 2025 Last Sunday I finished my blog praising the health system and intoning that my spider bite wound was healing. By Friday of this week I hobbled out of the non-profit organisation I’d been discharged to for my ongoing wound care. I clutched the back of my leg on …

Yoga is just one answer

Sunday Blog 189 – 15th June 2025 As I continue with the edits on my memoir, I want to share extracts with you, here and there. Especially when the editing intersects with my endless podcast listening, and there’s an insight that might be useful to you today. As I’m talking about my memoir, I’d like …

A lesson in longing

Sunday Blog 188 – 8th June 2025 In this post-birthday week I’ve been enjoying some guilt-free voucher purchases, and bought a copy of Hannah Kent’s memoir Always Home, Always Homesick. It’s a compelling book unpacking her student exchange experience in Iceland in 2003 which inspired her first novel, Burial Rites. The true story of the …

Best Days of our Life

Sunday Blog 186 – 25 May 2025 I plucked this quotation from the poem Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring from the podosphere this week. I was listening to something designed to settle me down for the night. But instead, I sat bolt upright and scribbled it down. The quotation landed, whole and perfect like an …

Journalling, and what it reveals…

Sunday Blog 185 – 18 May 2025 This week I tuned into a podcast all about memoir and journalling, just after returning from my recent Bali writing retreat. While there, I finished transcribing my 2006-2010 journal. (Procrastination about editing the memoir? How very dare you!) Among other things, the podcast episode highlighted that journalling can …

Long, bright shadow

Sunday Blog 184 – 11th May 2025 Sunday Blog 184 – 11th May 2025 Can a long, bright shadow be a thing? If so, that’s what my Mum cast over my life, leaving a trail of constructive kindness and unconditional acceptance. Not to mention whimsical remnants of 1940s teen slang such as “I’m all gog-wozzled” …