love.dreams.life
When I first got The Agoraphobia, or rather once I’d been in it for a while and progress was so slow that I couldn’t see past the end of my street, I’d pretty much given up on some dreams I’d always thought I’d live one day, even though I wasn’t actively pursuing them. To illustrate my point, over [...]
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Tell me if this sounds familiar? You’re at home, you’re waiting for your sweet potatoes to roast and so you jump on Pinterest, hit re-pin a few times and then quickly forget you were ever there. You even forget the reasoning behind some of your decisions. (or Pincisions?) Why on earth did I re-pin this maxi-skirt [...]
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{+} I had a choice to make today. I could have spent the day vividly unhappy crying in bed and using my duvet cover as tissue paper or…well, not do that. As with most either/or choices, this was false. More often than not, we aren’t faced with only two mirror opposite decisions. There are hundreds of [...]
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May I direct your attention to the Stratejoy Essay Contest for a minute or two? The prompt was: “How do you live life on your terms?” I spent close to two weeks writing almost 5000 words on the topic but finally managed to condense my thoughts into one short story. And it was picked as [...]
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My brother has the unfortunate position of being the only real male role model I have in my life. Hang on, let me rephrase that. I have the unfortunate position of having him as my male role model. I’m kidding. (Mostly.) But really, his opinion matters to me most in the world. This is good [...]
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Over curry and wine, I told Alexia about the two hours I spent feeling completely sorry for myself on Sunday. “Lordy! I was such a drama queen,” I said rolling my eyes at myself, “I closed all my blinds, switched off every light, got into bed and threw the covers over my head furiously.” “How [...]
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I’ve always been particularly superstitious about New Year’s Eve. This is weird because I’m not superstitious about anything else. (Except, I’m also superstitious about the Olympic Games years. I’ve been hospitalized for both of the last two Games -2004 and 2008- and I’m a little apprehensive for this summer’s London Games.) But my New Years’ superstition goes a little something [...]
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Today, my face, my thoughts and my book are staring back at me from the glossy pages of a national magazine. If you’d told me this would happen a year ago, I wouldn’t have laughed in your face, I felt far too hopeless to even smile. I would have probably grunted and said: “Meh, things like that [...]
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