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Time to reevaluate the prominence trauma has in our stories

There’s an excellent article on the prevalence of the trauma plot in contemporary literature in the January 3-10 […]

January 12, 2022 Counselling, fiction, health, Journalism, Literature, Love, Philosophy, Relationship, Theology, Writing

Turmoil + soul = jazz

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So I’m lying in bed, unable to sleep. Some years back. And I’m thinking about money. Not thinking […]

May 20, 2021 Music, Vinyl

Who wants normal? Not me

I’m starting to grieve the idea of going back to normal. Not that I think ‘normal’—meaning the way […]

April 17, 2020 health, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

We all lived in bubbles long before COVID-19 came along

The truth is, we’re going to come through this four-week period of social isolation with flying colours, because, […]

March 26, 2020 Counselling, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

As Sting says, Driven to tears

Yes, I felt an overwhelming wave of melancholy as PM Jacinda Ardern The Magnificent announced, in suitably serious […]

March 24, 2020 Opinion, Uncategorized, Writing

I ventured out today

I finally ventured out today. It’s hard to accept how much the world has changed in such a […]

March 19, 2020 Uncategorized, Writing

COVID-19: Should we be fearful of the coming dystopia?

My daughter (the second of four) asked me today whether I was afraid—of the coronavirus and the devastating […]

March 16, 2020 Epistemology, health, Journalism, Love, Opinion, Relationship, Uncategorized, Writing

‘I will be known’: A treasured conversation

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Our last coffee was had beneath the gaze of Mary, mother of Jesus, on December 17, 2018, some […]

February 7, 2020 Counselling, health, Journalism, Love, Relationship, Theology, Writing

Accidental presence

It’s been months since Darlene died, and yet when I come across her words, such as those lingering […]

November 14, 2019 Love, Music, Philosophy, Writing

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