The Bloom
Reflections and gentle conversations on midlife, books, solo adventures and creating a life that blooms.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Gratitude & Longing
“I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a particular irony in spending twelve years in conflict management...
Dear Friend
“The door is always open. Unfortunately, so is the fridge.”
Dear friend,
A little over ten months ago, my youngest daughter left for university. For the first time in three decades, I found myself living alone - something I believed I was...
Is Wanting More Wrong? (Asking for a friend)
Camino 2026
As I walked part of the Camino this year, one question kept returning .
Is it wrong to want more?
To be clear, I’m exceptionally lucky. I have so much to be grateful for.
I’m also not talking about more cars, bigger...
Emotionally Ambushed by a Village Sports Day
After years working in conflict management, I thought I was fairly unshockable.
I’ve navigated some choppy waters and would consider myself a resilient cookie.
Yet there I was, standing at my front door, trying to compose myself while the...
Shirley Valentine Had a Point
“Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don’t ever use them?”
- Shirley Valentine
A few months ago. The Bloom didn’t exist.
Today, it does.
It’s still small. A handful of posts on a little corner of the internet t...
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Solo traveller, reader, writer & hiker. Working in conflict management while quietly planning a midlife gap year. I love books, new places & stories that remind us it’s never too late to begin again, whilst holding onto a dream I can’t give up on.
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