Recent writing
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Walk on the ocean
ReadI realise it may be surprising that I’m blogging again. Like, who even remembers blogging? Why did we spend our evenings, huddled over our laptops, spilling our guts on the…
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We all need a village, so be a village.
ReadI wrote something back in 2018 that I keep coming back to. I was trying to articulate the terror and the grace of watching my child grow up, of having…
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Not everything has to be a marketing strategy.
ReadI found it. I genuinely think I found the worst lead generation strategy in the entire history of people trying to sell things to other people. And listen, I have…
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Just give me a minute.
ReadWhen I take five minutes to breathe, this is what enters my head, and I can see it so clearly now: My mate, Byron, shared his concerns about being able…
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Protected: It’s been a long time.
ReadThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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“I made you.”
Read“I made you.” I am bleary eyed and just waking up, with hot coffee. My mum would’ve turned 77 today. In all of her learning of me and teaching…
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14 and all that jazz
ReadThis morning, I said your voice was a memory. By this afternoon, it was loudly resonating across my house, it was like you were in the next room. It’s been…
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Updated: Cute But Dangerous – Posting Back to School Pictures
ReadThis post was originally published in 2015, on DigiKids, a webzine created by Stacey Vee & I, that encouraged parents towards guiding their children through the digital world in a…
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I can’t wish you a Happy Birthday
ReadDear Mum, The last time I got to wish you a Happy Birthday was when you turned 67. In 2010. You would not live much longer. But how much time…
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The Language of Letting Go
ReadI’ve always maintained that parenting hit me like a brick and a cushion. A brick, because the jarring, unyielding, transformations that you go through are neither kind nor easy. And,…