This piece appeared in the Irish Examiner at some point in 2020. As restrictions return here in Australia (thankfully not in my current home of Queensland) now felt like a timely time to share here. Also, I'm lazy and forgot about it for approximately eight months. Enjoy! In a world of less – less touching,… Continue reading Eyes: the windows to our soul…and our survival?
I am on honeymoon. I am also doing the unthinkable and writing twice in a week WHAT IS LIFE. I have finally ceased my carousing ways, my pledge to pleasurable but unsustainable debauchery and deigned to enter not so much a relationship, but what I like to consider a true union. Yes, I have finally… Continue reading turquoise deep azure crystal clear iridescent
I recently began an email (shameless plug to subscribe here) as I always do – Dearest one, How are you? Then I began again: How ARE you? HOW are you? How are YOU? I wrote out all of the inflections because I wanted all of the answers. And it got me thinking (I am… Continue reading How the hell are ya and who the hell am i?
She is back, my pretty one. The long and limber, svelte and ephemeral. A barely-there hair. I don’t remember her growing, only woke to find her trapped in lips tight with the wishings of silent dreams. Back again. I greet her like a friend though there is an air of the uncanny about her. Familiar… Continue reading the barely-there hair
Debunking the Glorification of Leaving and the Fallacy of a 'Before' and 'After' Narrative So many of you read and reached out to a piece I wrote while in hotel quarantine about why I made the decision to quit a “good” job in a pandemic and move my life without any sort of flotation device… Continue reading In Praise of Staying
Is finding planet-friendly activewear too much of a stretch? This month for The Gloss, I investigate the brands that will help you save the planet, one squat at a time. Whenever I am lacking a little motivation, I dress in activewear. I find something strangely reassuring about the skintight feel of compressed leggings or the… Continue reading A Drop in the Ocean: Let’s get Ethical!
For more pieces like this one, sign up to my weekly newsletter, The Earnest Spoon, here. I am dancing to Alex Cameron in my once-pristine hotel room. It is still clean – I am not a gremlin – but the floor, once vacuumed to the point of appearing more leather than carpet, bears witness to… Continue reading I am dancing to Alex Cameron in my once-pristine hotel room
As a collector of words, ocean is right up there with gumption, superfluous, and kaleidoscopic as one of my favourites. Not because of the onomatopoeic evocations of its “sh” sound, not because uttering it requires my mouth to mirror the undulations of the waves that mosaic it but rather because of the pleasant associations it… Continue reading What is ‘A Drop in the Ocean’?
Creative gift ideas that cost little, waste nothing but mean everything Last month, I wrote to you of practicality. Of reclaiming the “need” of gift-giving because, in delivering essential items, we are automatically reducing hazardous waste and corporate-fuelled climate change. Yet, to paraphrase Love Actually, most of us don’t want something we need, we want… Continue reading A Drop in the Ocean: When Less is More
I know it’s only November, I know we don’t want to think about it, I know it feels surreal and almost sacrilegious to even mention it what with the lockdowns and low hums of recession, the rising loneliness and lowering of morale but I’m going to do it, mention the unmentionable and open the Pandora’s… Continue reading A Drop in the Ocean: ‘Tis the Season to be Practical – How the Humble Care Package can Save Christmas and the World
Earnest & Ethereal 