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 …
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Journals vs memoir
Sunday Blog 182 – 27th April 2025 In the interests of getting ready for my next writing retreat and editing sprint in Bali next week, I’ve been dipping back into relevant journals. Much like the girl in the image, I’ve noticed my instinct as a writer is to water ski over the top of emotions, …
Communication is truth
Sunday Blog 179 – 6th April 2025 It would seem that there are consequences to removing my head from the sand of world politics. Much greater effort is required to ensure that my spirits remain buoyant in these interesting, interesting times. So today I returned to the scene of my undergraduate degree. I left this …
Throwing pots
Sunday Blog 176 – 16th March 2025 This month I’m participating in the March Micro Marathon with Smokelong Quarterly, producing a piece of flash fiction and non-fiction each day. Simplistically put, flash is a piece of less than 1000 words. Like throwing pots, one after the other off the potter’s wheel. After this month is …
Post-retreat Retreat Pastiche
Sunday Blog 172 – 16th Feb 2025 “Your windows are super clean, Mum.” It was the sixth occasion I’d flicked on the windscreen wipers instead of the indicator while driving my daughter to Perth airport. She and I had a short window of overlap time between me returning from San Francisco and her heading to …
Beautiful Carmel-by-the-sea
Sunday Blog 171 – 9th Feb 2025 “Hands up if you rang your family to tell them you had no business coming to this writing retreat.” This question was posed to us on Tuesday, the morning of the first full day of the very last Carmel Writing Retreat run by Linda Sivertsen that I have …
Shedding my skin
Sunday Blog 170 – 2nd Feb 2025 It has come to my attention that the Chinese New Year 2025 kicked off 29th January-and it’s the Year of the Wood Snake. I am a Wood Snake, indeed a woman entering her third act of her life this year. There’s going to be some shedding. Here’s me …
In between the years
Sunday Blog 165 – 29th December 2024 (I checked the date twice lol) This in-between Christmas and New Year time is one of my favourites of the year. I love how quickly the days melt away. How I have to check my calendar more than once to verify which day I’m on. It’s a time …
Permission to be cringe-worthy
Sunday Blog 160 – 24th November 2024 The Blind Boy podcast I listened to last weekend dug into the topic of cringe. That when you try out things creatively, it’s cringeworthy. Because it is. And over time, it might become good, but first, there must be cringe. My family of origin, like so many, was …
Travelling alone but together
Sunday Blog 156 – 20th October 2024 When I landed in New York on the first of October, it was my very first visit to America. I’d meant go to an in-person yoga retreat with my favourite online USA teacher in 2020 but…the world had other ideas. I waited until 2024 and chose New York …