You’re gasping for any air you can find. A single breath that may hold the power to carry you far away from the reality that is now before you. You no longer have a fortnight to a month left in the land that is home, you have now less than fourty-eight hours in your hands. […]

In just a few weeks from now my family are leaving the nation I’ve called home for the past decade. I have avoided this space. I haven’t dared to feel, but now it’s pressing on every side. Every wound caused over the past ten years coming to to the forefront of my mind. Every word […]

”To the untrained observer, my morning beverage may look like bean water in a cup, but to me, it’s actually something more profound. It’s a tiny anchor, lending a bit of certainty and familiarity to uncertain days. It’s a small thing, but it makes a big difference. Traditionally, an anchor is “a device that prevents […]

Fresh from the desert, Clear eyes formed by storms, You were holding my face all along, I couldn’t mistake You; though I tried, You, Fear-Dismantler, The One Whose face I have been memorizing, Line upon line, Daughter. Treasure. Mine. Cradled. Enclosed. Unveiled. Redemption songs, screaming ever louder, Overtaking yesterday’s nightmare, Tomorrow’s pain, These rains are […]

Nor is it ever my life-blood. My identity, Or any part of my song. All is new. I used to write only for His eyes. I cannot place any of my fingers on the reason my scribbles became something I decided to share. I began to blog in 2007. Some days I would write(and end […]

“May these words be the first to find your ears. The world is brighter than the sun now that you’re here. Though your eyes will need some time to adjust To the overwhelming light surrounding us, I’ll give you everything I have. I’ll teach you everything I know. I promise I’ll do better. I will […]

Dear my tiniest treasure, I have wondered when to write this for months.  Never did I imagine that at thirty nine weeks you would be lying upon my chest, your heartbeat no longer an echo but a sound. You are mere hours away from two months of age but your age still bears the name […]

being beside my husband in our car and him reaching across to stroke my arm tenderly. 2. the scent of LUSH’s Brightside bubble bar. 3. anticipating post(snail-mail to my american friends!) 4.  the tree beside the radio station near our house, that always lets me know i’m home. 5.  how the sound of the Gilmore […]

I wake up with the bridge of a song that includes those lyrics dancing its way through my heart one morning. Darkness? In the most glorious season of my life? To a loved one with lesser insight it may indeed appear that this season must be glorious. Without question, it is. It is also the most difficult. She […]

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” -Terry Pratchett These windows are different. When it rains here I can see the droplets, so small and perfectly formed. This is not home. This rain is so unlike the storms i am used to. This steady rain will always come if […]