Blog

Here are my posts on life, loss, and everything in between.

Take me to the mountains

Whenever I go to the Blue Mountains, I like to imagine I’m going back in time. From boarding the rickety old tin train at Central station to off-boarding at the center of town, breathing in that cold mountain air.
When you meet someone in deep grief

Slip off your shoes, and set them by the door.
The books that made love reading

These are the ‘gateway drug’ books that introduced me to reading and changed the way I saw the world.
The end of Australian summer

I don’t know at what age I stopped being a “winter person”, or maybe I never was. Maybe some people are born with summer in the hearts, and others with winter.
The Story of Us

Alas, their story may not involve tangled up dog leashes or mute mermaids saving strange men from shipwrecks…
A reminder of fragility

“I’m indestructible,” he whispers in my ear. “Nothing bad can ever happen to me.”