Dear Reader,
The coffee cup was heavier than it should have been but I continued to drink. It was a small comfort as this furnace of emotion and old pain circled my body like a cloud of dark smoke. I…
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Dear 18 year old Ryan
Dear 18 year old Ryan,
Hi Kid. It’s me. Your future self. You’re probably wondering why I am reaching out and there’s a few reasons. Turns out you fully become one of those spiritual people who work with energy and…
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Pajamas and Dog Farts
Dear Reader,
There’s a movie on, I have a hot cup of tea beside me, I’ve lost my husband to his computor games and the dog is non stop farting. This couldn’t be a more perfect Saturday night. I remember…
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Opening Doors to Tribe.
Dear Reader,
It finally happened. My album is now out there and in the world! It’s the end of one long journey and the beginning of another. Next step is to go about finding my people which, as always, is…
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The Religion of Productivity
Dear Reader,
Pause. Take a breath. Recover. Absorb the life you have created. That is the lesson I continually trip over. I keep falling into the idea that the times when the stars align and I achieve my optimum state…
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Breakfast at the Funeral Parlour
Dear Reader,
The low humming of the fan downstairs could only mean one thing...that a new body had been brought in at some point last night. It also meant something else. That I would be sharing breakfast with a ghost…
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Home Address
( writing on my art room floor )
Dear Reader,
It was probably the result of years of tiny, small adjustments, self talks and a handful of helpful friends who are all in some way therapists. I can’t pin point…
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Practicing Joy
Dear Reader,
It happens all the time. I sit in front of the canvas, the piano or when I’m writing and I look at that familiar blinking line on the white screen and...nothing. There’s no wild and untamed inspiration. There’s…
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My Soul Stepped Forward
Dear Reader,
My hands quietly traced the white keys of the piano and a piece of my soul stepped forward. I remember it clearly. I can’t explain it now more than I could explain it back then. It just fit…
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The Bittersweet of Better
Dear Reader,
Turns out that when you create an instagram account for your freshly named blog all of the people you have blocked on your other accounts over the years can now see your new page and you end up…
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A New Name
Dear Reader,
It was time for a name change and a slightly new direction for this blog. It started on SortYourFuckingLifeOut.com and well, as hilarious as I found it, it didn’t quite fit some of the things I want to…
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I'm too boring for a mid life crisis...
Dear Reader,
Recently I turned 44 ( bloody hell! ) and I was prepared for a full mid life crisis. I was ready for leather jackets, hair plugs and listening to music too loud in an attempt to convey rebellion…
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How to avoid burnout in Q4.
Dear Reader,
I'm approaching the last quarter of the year and it is taking all of my will power not to try and cram everything I said I was going to do this year into the last three months. Each…
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What season are you in?
Dear Reader,
The feeling is subtle at first, almost like a dull painless ache that runs through the body. I start getting frequent sleep interuptions. I wake up 4 or five times a night with a mind that's completely alert…
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Getting clearer all the time.
Dear Reader,
It's taken me some time to figure out what I want this blog to be and I've settled on it just being personal expression. I've been blogging since before myspace ( yes im old ) and since that…
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