Jun 26, 2025 | blogging, words
Wax dripped over my fingers as I held the candle horizontal and tried to get the wick clear enough from the wax pooled around it so it could light. The match burned down to my fingertips as I willed the wick to take the flame. “MotherFUCKER,” I thought to...
Jun 12, 2025 | creativity, words, writing
If you’d like to read about my upcoming solstice circle, then click here. For the longest time, our family has honoured the Solstice. Whether that’s the winter solstice, the dark creeping in near 4pm, the light escaping behind the trees, winking as it disappears; or...
May 22, 2025 | creativity, how-to, writing
I’ve been thinking and writing about permission lately. Who gives us permission to write, or create, and why do we seek permission from outside of us in the first place? And it all, yet again, comes down to patriarchy, capitalism and the messages we internalise...
Apr 24, 2025 | blogging, rebellion, words, writing
[Content warning: mention of holocaust] I’ve written before about what to do about feeling like the world is burning around us. Through the beginnings of Trump’s US, of transcending terror, of how to get through when the world is rough, and some unedited rambling...
Mar 27, 2025 | blogging, creativity, rebellion, words, writing
The struggle to write your book while the world feels like it’s spinning out of control is real. How can you take time to get your writing done, your book finished, your published book out there with your name on it when everything’s on fire? The answer is to...
