When you’re 24, pregnant and everyone calls you highly neurotic about, well, everything, it seems like a really good idea to hang curtains. We’d just moved into the flat I used to…
Category: ramble
Advice for the new person
Sitting at my desk this morning, while herding two crazy dogs and trying to type up an important email, I accidentally upended a very necessary cup of coffee right down my front….
The Forest of Curious Creatures
Beneath the luscious canopy of beautiful trees, in the very dark wood. There lived a goblin, who was up to no good. While the greenery gasped and smiled at the sun, the…
Irony
The irony of me posting this as a blogpost is not lost on me. But watching something this morning has made me think again about something that’s been swarming in the back…
Health Checks With A Smile – A Visit to the Discovery Store
Last week, I was invited to check out the newly opened Discovery Store in our neighbourhood. I’m pretty militant about going for my annual check ups and the like, but I also…
Living on the edge?
No, it’s not just an Aerosmith song, although you should probably listen to it now, because it’ll help me get my point across. I read this, this week, and find myself wholly…
this is the thing you do not know
this is the thing you do not know. it lives, it sleeps, it plods through the snow. but sometimes life sends us a spark. through characters 140, there comes an arc. you…
Compulsion and Elation
I have a compulsion to write this evening but, you know how you get stuck on a sentence and it just won’t fit? I’m there right now. So here I am, just spitballing…
Hacking My Sleep
If you know me at all, you’ll know that I have a long history with sleep. Well, more correctly, a long history with not getting enough of it. For the record, this is…
On Names.
This is not the first time this has happened. You came home the other day, having shrugged off another stupid attempt to annoy you. It had centred on your name. I’ll accept…