Iron and sleep.

Everyone loves the idea that they’re off the beaten track. They’re forging their own paths. Or, if they don’t love being a trailblazer, they probably like them. My life changed by a little orange postcard. Reasonably well designed, the postcard had some details about a program at a bible college…

CW: sexual assault I sat down to write an essay I planned. I’ve got the notes, it was all outlined, and then for whatever reason I typed some horrible lines about some truth I’d rather not deal with, and now, look where we are, an essay about something completely different. …

Let’s call it something different: How to Write Gooderer Know the rules of your chosen language so you can break them. (see above title.) Write what you can when you can. You (can) write what you know and (you should research) what you don’t. Tolerate other writers gladly. They may…

It’s been a big day: a birthday party for my daughter’s friends, my son is all sniffly and I have a serious case of can’t-eat-anything-anxiety which is kind of the worst. Someone is snoring but I think it’s probably the cat, she’s the loudest one of them all. I have…

Today has been topsy-turvy, then again every single day for months has been topsy-turvy. A friend of mine came around and I said to her how I was starting to feel much closer to myself than I had for years, and then, the next day, they shut the state borders…

This story is 100% true. The year was 2006. My best friend and I decided to go to a Christian worship event disguised as a concert. We didn’t know it would cost money to get into the church auditorium — it was $10 a ticket and between us we had…

Just before I started my final teaching placement I bought myself a Swarovski necklace. It is a tiny danging pink crystal and it cost a flat $100. It was the first piece of jewellery (fine jewellery that is) that I bought myself. I thought I’d wear it all the time…