
small shifts and big messes (journals). Often we write about transformations in retrospect, counting our insights. I'm right at the start/ in the middle. Thought I'd be raw about it.
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I don’t believe in only writing when I’m sad or angry but somehow it still comes out that way. Last weekend I had my first art exhibition ever. I thought I was a writer, someone who puts words to paper and leaves them there. This year is a...
It’s my birthday tomorrow! Or today, when I’m sending out this letter. Last year around this time, I started this Substack, writing about my three homes. I still feel like I have three homes. But just under a year later, things have changed...
I listened to a lot of Lana del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell last week, but I stopped. I accidentally left my dirty underwear on your floor this morning, left my toothbrush at the sink, left my jumper hanging from a hook in your bedroom. I...
I once wrote:
Desire is the most claustrophobic feeling
in the space my body holds.
It leaves me thirsty and unable to swallow
while I clutch at my phone and try to
be a good girl.
Ha. It feels so good to have my skin burn ben...
It’s 2026 and I need to remind myself of something I wrote here in July 2025, four months after we broke up, two months after I left our together home. This is what I wrote:
I think about the colours I might paint the walls of my future ap...
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writer, gardener, life explorer down east. I’ve let a bomb explode in my life and now everything is wide open. Writing about change?
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