random asides

Moving house is right up there on the stressor scale, and I really think it wigs me out way more than I let on. As you know, we moved towards…

Sweet child, the idea that you are turning ten leaves me breathless. Every parent says it, but it’s so true for me – I blinked and suddenly you’d morphed from…

I can judge the level of how well I know someone, and how well they know me, by the things they say about me, to me (and sometimes, not to…

Dear Mom, When a child turns five, their parents feel this strange sense of pride and longing. Like, five is a “whole hand” and the baby days are very over.…

But first.  If you’ve been following, this is the final instalment of not only our tandem, collaborative blogging series, but it is also the final page in  a short story I’ve been…

I really do enjoy the wide range of monthly subscription box programmes that have cropped up over the past couple of years. It seems like you can sort your life…

Dear Diary, It’s been seventeen years since I last visited Mumbai and, tonight, as I feasted over my dinner, a remarkably familiar face surprised itself into my view. “It’s beautiful…

Dear Genius Mind From a Life That No Longer Lingers, I haven’t seen you since the moon left the sky and the fireworks imploded upon themselves. When the world was a…

She wasn’t listening when he asked her if she would like a cup of tea. She wasn’t listening when that girl called her a nasty name at the back of…

Jeremy didn’t really know how to say it, or what to do with it. But he did know how he’d like to feel while during it. He had no clue…