I’m Sorry
Edenland’s Fresh Horses post this week is a series of sentences starting with “Sorry”. If you go over to Eden’s post (and if you haven’t, you should, it’s compelling), you’ll see it’s nothing about...
View ArticleGetting Radical
I’ve come back from the Digital Parents Blogging Conference with a bounce in my step. The session that stood out a mile was ‘Blogging is a Radical Act’. Moderated by Catherine Archer, who is doing a...
View ArticleDo You Remember?
A memory emerges, naked in the luminous light. Warmly unfolding as fresh as the moment it first happened. I have many of these kinds of memories. Beautiful and crisp. When they are triggered in my...
View ArticleClimbing the Hill
Climbing the hill. Wind whistling through my ears. Pulling me higher. Each foothold more slippery than the last. The winter sun slices through me as it hits the ground. It crashes into a million pieces...
View ArticleDominos
I wanted to scrawl these words on the toilet door of the shiny new building. To christen it. To bring a scrap of reality. But I’ve never been cool enough to graffiti. Or witty enough. And out of...
View ArticleThe Boy
As soon as I saw the ultrasound screen, I knew. I didn’t need to wait for the sonographer to tell me. I could see it was a boy. Which meant it wasn’t a girl. And all I wanted was a girl. It was wrong...
View ArticleGetting On With The Show
Are you still here? I hope so. I’ve been away again. I can’t tell you how many times I sat down in the last few weeks and willed my brain to type a post. Blank screen. Every time. Unbloggable events...
View ArticleThe Life of Pi
It’s still with me. I watched the Life of Pi two days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. By night it flashes through the filmy velvet of my dreams. By day my head is a rapturous kaleidoscope of...
View ArticleWings On Fire
I’ve grown wings. Magnificent wings. They’re rich and lustrous. And if you stand just the right way in the sunlight, they shimmer. They weren’t always this big. It wasn’t long ago when I noticed them...
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