Spoilers, spoilers. Let’s be honest, you’re only reading this because you want someone to nut out the ending of Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent, yeah? Well, here we go. Just a quick recap: Sally has led a traumatic past and it is all catching up with her after her…

When I was in my twenties I had a year where I had the Midas touch. Almost anything I turned my hand to turned to gold. Job interviews, fitness, completing a bunch of items from my long-and-exhaustive to-do list, repairing friendships — nothing was too hard. Even challenges I had…

I used to have this quote I loved: love, food, wine and dancing, that’s all anyone needs to be happy. I call BS. I’d just really like some iron so…

Sunday nights always have a feel of uncertainty mixed with anticipation but tonight, nothing. I’ve been unwell for two months now and my bloods came back to let me know I’m very iron deficient again. This isn’t anything new, I have been anemic or iron deficient for extended periods of…

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…