Point & Shoot: Christmas comes early
Ever since we closed the door on November the kids have been excitedly counting the days to December 8th and this weekend the wait was finally over...
Winter Is Coming
The air is still, there's no breeze. Expectation hangs dumbly like a first-grader trying to cut in at the school disco. Everything waits...
Passing The Torch – Remembrance Day
Every Remembrance Day I'm reminded of the waste and futility of war, the squandering of life through an inability to live and let live. But today I realised something else: the importance of being clear and committed about what matters to you...
Dear Tooth Fairy… Baby Teeth – Do You Keep Them?
I'm not really sure why but I keep my children's baby teeth when they fall out. I can't bring myself to throw them away. What do you do with your little one's teeth?
Story of A Miscarriage (Part 2)
No one tells you what to prepare for when you miscarry, beyond the practicalities of industrial strength sanitary supplies...
Story Of A Miscarriage (Part 1)
The doctor looked at my face, apologized and said I’d lost my baby. How is it possible that you can know and not know something simultaneously?
Wherever The Fancy Takes You
J & T returned to school today and already the summer seems like a memory. I wrote this piece last week - it feels a million miles away right now...
The Lake At The Centre Of My World
The water moves languidly, a tranquil meditation on ease in your own form, and the blush of early sunshine brings just enough warmth to the hazy opalescence to make a swim seem the most desirous thing in all the world...
Fish’n’Chips
Whenever we get a craving for some fresh-fried chip-shop fare we head out to Captain George's
Ghosts Of Ramadans Past
It’s the early hours of the morning. The sky is still a bottomless black and I've roused myself from sleep to eat before the fast begins...
