The past month has brought big changes in my professional life… Continue reading
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Dear July
Dear July,
I’ve been thinking lately about the things I want.
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Right Now
Last year was a year of major external changes – changing home, work, friends, family. This year has been a year of internal ones. Thinking differently, changing my habits. Trying to challenge myself and grow. Continue reading
IWD 2017
Today is International Women’s Day, a day that has it’s roots in the socialist party and celebrates the social, economic, political and cultural achievements of women around the world. I celebrated it by attending the ECU Memorial Lecture which is a free lecture held by my alma mater which brings together women from all walks … Continue reading
Overthinking
These past few days seem to have existed in a state of perpetual dampness. My photos and the slips of paper I have stuck to my walls have been curling up at the corners and the evaporative air conditioning seems to do nothing but make the tiled floors slippery. Today finally there is a small … Continue reading
Sentry
Like so many people out there I am struggling to pull my gaze away from the constant barrage of news coming out of this time of social and political upheaval. The news cycle is all consuming right now as is my constant need to be connected to it and to bear witness. But all sentries … Continue reading
Milestones
I don’t know what it is about Perth that gives me this constant feeling of restlessness, sometimes it feels so physical, like I am walking around in a cloud of noise and static, completely disconnected from my surroundings. Yesterday I was told that I share stories about other people because I don’t have any of my … Continue reading
105 days
Well hello. I know that many months have passed without a word from me and part of that is because so much has happened that I didn’t know where to start. I am finally starting to feel that I am at a place where I can process the past few months and I figured now … Continue reading
Onwards.
Tomorrow I fly home. To my other home, the one with red dirt and white sandy beaches, eroding limestone and turquoise sea. To my family, though two of our normal number are off on their own adventures into the world and the shape of things has changed since I left. I go home to the … Continue reading
Coming home
This has been a difficult post to write. I’ve written no less than four drafts and scrapped them all and have decided to just write without thinking too much about it (Somewhere in Perth, my former English teachers jerk awake in a cold sweat). So without further ado, I’ve decided to move back to Perth. … Continue reading
