dadadad

  • You have led me home and you’re not even here.

    Dear Dadadadad. The gulf of time between us is now pre-teen. An expanse of ocean, wisdom and moments all wrapped up in the grandchild you only held once sits before…

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  • eightyone.

    Dear Dadadadad, It was your birthday yesterday, and I had to skip writing you a letter because my eyeballs were square from working most of the weekend and spending a…

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  • Seven Years.

    Dear Dad, Seven years. My daughter has grown from a mewing infant into the tall, gregarious child I see before me as I type this. In the same time that…

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  • You see, the thing is.

    Dear Dadadadad Wow. Four years, hey? Beans on toast. I didn’t think I’d get this far. And, weirdly, this is the year I felt the most okay, and the most…

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  • Rules For Living Cath

    After I eventually fell asleep last night (i chilled on the couch, watched a lot of television…) I had the most.random.but.vivid.dream. It was, however, divine. I was at home, the…

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  • oh. one more thing.

    something my father did, sticks with me daily. especially when i write something that could be construed as controversial. he would always point a book out to me, the title…

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  • 12 July 2008

    Dear Dadadad It’s been three years, since them angels came and took you away to play chess with Ivor and ask all the angel waitresses – “is the kettle broken,…

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  • one day til

    tomorrow will be a hard day. im musing on this. in the meantime, for my siblings and my mama, and mostly for the man i miss the most. Dadadadadad. because…

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  • emo phases.

    it’s an emo cath week, this week. this week marks three years of missing someone, see? (note – being emo does not mean im not happy. i just feel affected…

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  • random

    my mum just dropped off some of my things she uncovered whilst unpacking after her great move. in it is a scrapbook of birthday cards and letters and faxes (i…

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