Recent writing
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Compulsion and Elation
ReadI 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,…
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In Orbit
ReadDear Daughter, At some point in your life, in the indeterminate and very-far-away future, you’ll be an adult. You’ll be swinging your way through whatever it is that you end…
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On Incomplete Sentences
ReadI asked my dad once “how do you know? You know? How do you know you love someone? How do you know you want to marry them?” (Back then, I…
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#GoodWeirdSA and Lenovo
ReadThe lovely folks over at Lenovo sent me this gigantic box yesterday. I love it when people get creative with their ideas around campaigns, and this is one I’ll certainly…
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Hacking My Sleep
ReadIf 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,…
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On Names.
ReadThis 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.…
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Shallow Breathing and Big Words
ReadDear Darling, I’m scared. I know I like you to think that nothing much scares me (and truth is, not much does), but there is something that absolutely petrifies me……
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For Jane, on her Birthday.
ReadIn life, we get cheerleaders. We have to be our own on the way to finding our own troop of cheerleaders, but it’s true. Those mates who stick by you,…
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A Decade | Dadadadadad
ReadA decade. The way it rounds up in my mouth as I say it, seems far too clean a manner with which to describe the sheer void that it implies.…
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21 Questions
ReadI’ve done quite a few of these before, so if you’re bored, you can read some of them here; here; here; here and here. I was tagged by my (yes, she’s mine!!!)…