Seven Years – No Itch
For seven years I have worn this ring. Seven years of the best kind of luck. I’m lucky enough to be married to someone so beautiful so loving so […]
A trillion little bits of distracting noise
“This was what was keeping me awake at night,” Walter said. “This fragmentation. Because it’s the same problem everywhere. It’s like the internet, or cable TV – there’s never any […]
Pollyanna and Charles Bukowski
“ (don’t get me wrong, there is such a thing as cockeyed optimism that overlooks all basic problems just for the sake of itself- this is a shield and […]
Grateful for little choices
Coffee or tea? With a bikkie or without? Which of the three novels I have on my beside table should I read next? What is for dinner? Shall we rent […]
At Home
At Home The window is half open The glass is dirty There is a crack which lets in the cold even when the window is closed and I know […]
Sometimes Sunday
Sometimes Sunday feels like Standing on one of the streets of my hometown, looking at the sky. Two birds flying overhead, the distant hum of lawnmowers. A lone tumbleweed spinning […]
Grateful Again
Oh my! Is it really nearly May? Unbelieveable! Here are a few of things I have been grateful for since we last caught up. Good News : Last month we […]
Dream fragment
Recently my dreams have been frightfully vivid and vividly frightening. But amongst the knives and blood and trips to Paris where I spend the whole plane journey wondering […]
Storm Warning
“Do you think it might rain?” she said. The question had come from nowhere. “No, I don’t think so,” I mumble in reply. But the the thought […]
Writing, bad jobs, food and frogs
I have been tagged by the lovely and amazing Kat to answer a five question meme involving frogs, which is obviously the perfect way to break a wee blogging drought. […]