broken and expected to show up

To up and travel might be a lonelier kind of life.
Lonelier than nurturing the roots of my friendship here.
Or somewhere.

I am feeling like there is someone missing from my life.
And it feels so weird that I should keep writing, when no one gets in touch.… Read the rest

real life high

Something has lifted overnight.

And now, I want a ‘real life high’. I want to do something in my world that will lift the roof off my mood.

Because I am back to baseline, perhaps.

A morning coffee is a little bit of that.… Read the rest

buy whyyyy

I am thinking of the reasons that 2026 has started in such a messy way in my world (not to mention more generally).

At one point I remembered the cake that my mother had bought me for my 40th birthday, which ended up going into the bin.… Read the rest

soul pain

A sickness to the stomach, so vile.

Borne from the realisation that she can’t switch it off.

Can’t ‘refuse to go back there’.

It is a bitter loneliness to walk some uncharted path,

With ‘friends’ who refuse to speak to her.… Read the rest