When was the last time you felt lonely? What brings you joy? I would invite you to hold onto those thoughts for a moment. As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on our lives and livelihoods in 2020, another pandemic – infinitely more insidious and damaging – ravaged our hearts. Often referred to…
Tag: relationships
This Is Why I Fight
This post is a personal one. Whilst it is not always a painful one, it is certainly a post that I wrote and rewrote a number of times in fear of not giving it the due attention it deserved. It is also worth bearing in mind that I have only found the courage to publish…
Unspoken (Featuring Banff, Canada)
Dear You, First words. I dreamt about your first words. In the early days that was all I could ever think about, as days dragged into weeks and weeks into months of an agonising wait game. “How have you been, kiddo?” After three years of respectful silence these are hardly the first words I had…
Marriage Story (2019)
In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy shared his wisdom that “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. 140 years later in Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach ignited the silver screen with a splendid, bittersweet rendition of the Tolstoy wisdom. Marriage Story begins with much promise, as all marriages invariably do,…
Making Peace with Your Insecurities – Because You Are Good Enough
There are times when I feel so thoroughly depleted that I cannot write a word, let alone string together a sentence. There are times when nothing I say or do comes out right, the way I intended it to be. What if I told you this has been one of those times? What if I…
5 TED Talks to Change Your Mind
I logged into WordPress today, horrified at the realisation that I have not produced any original content for over a month (Almost Friends was really a repost from August)! A blogger I follow astutely pointed out that if we don’t adequately nourish and nurture our blogs, what right do we have to demand an active…
SoMuchToTellYou 