Have you ever tried something you thought you’d (probably) be amazing at, only to find that your abilities were slightly underestimated or applied wrongly? Have you ever discovered, quite by accident, that there’s something you’re really pretty good at? Excellent, even? I have. I started taking drama classes as a teenager, absolutely convinced that I…
Don’t grow up war-torn. It can leave you battle-scarred in the most unexpected of ways – I have the physical scars, because very few escape without them, and the mental and emotional scars of seeing so many deaths – of a constant, agonised community bowed low under the weight of so many bodies needing burial…
I’m a naturally impatient person, and I hate being late (especially for a friend), so a queue of traffic on a cold, rainy morning was particularly unwelcome. It turned out to be one of those shopping delivery vans, half on the pavement and half in the road, so that the rush hour traffic was forced…
Have you ever experienced a moment in life where something caught you *so* by surprise that you could barely breathe for fear of breaking the moment and having it end? I’ve had a few, and they stay with me, tucked away in my memories in a snug, tiny box marked ‘Here be Treasure’. When you…
The crisp, freshly-laundered coat is crinkled at the waist, causing deep runnels like mountains and valleys or the pattern you get in the sand after the tide has receded. It smells sweet, almost like flowers but with something a little deeper and more cloying than a natural scent – perhaps artificial scents, flavours and colourings…
Did you ever have to deal with a feeling of dread? That one where your stomach sinks and clenches, and you want to be sick just to be rid of the gnawing in your guts? I’ve got that now. Because I think that there are times when trying to be transparent is way overrated, and…
As I park at the harbour and check the weather again for the last time, I can feel myself begin to unwind. It’s a perfect day with the sky stretching blue as far as the eye can see and the water sparkling, ruffled with cats paws as a gentle breeze plays over it. A special…
You just never know when life might change completely. For me, it was a few years ago, when I stepped off the pavement to cross the road. Perhaps I shouldn’t have crossed by that van. Perhaps I should’ve looked again. Perhaps I should have just stayed home that day, and never tried to get out…
Welcome, welcome to the thirteenth week of Ten Things of Thankful. It’s Labor Day weekend in the USA, so we may be a little quieter, which will enable us far more time to pop over to one anothers’ blogs and get stuck into some wonderful conversations, which seems to be a hallmark of this here…
It was the day after I was 18. I walked up to the dark, little parlour, sandwiched between a take-away and a Thai Massage Parlour (probably a knocking shop) and stared for a moment, bewitched by the overwhelming number of images in the window and a little over-awed by the enormity of what I was…
Considerings 