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climate change

i sit and listen to the thunder crack and roll…a summer storm is taking hold…the…

/ Meditation

Peace, Russia and Priorities

After a day of: peer support training (new team), physio, news surfing, watching the Canadian…

/ Thought

burn them to hell

The role of a teacher in combatting bigotry.

/ Coffeehouse Tales

Steady

What it means to be steady as an artist when you feel everything but.

/ Life

Mom’s Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls

On the precise way to make my mother’s and her mother’s cabbage rolls.

/ Life

country roads

On a run out to Salisbury Greenhouse for a wee Christmas prezzie, I pulled out…

/ Expatmania

I’m dreaming of…

Omnicron messes up the journey home and conflicted-ness over whether to book a flight at high prices causes anxiety and confusion.

/ Coffeehouse Tales

in a cafe, restless

This expat’s reflection from a Saudi cafe on the complexities of grief and learning to live and dream again after the death of my father during Covid.