read my mind

There are moments that mark your life: Falling in love. Leaving home. Your first time on a plane. Getting your heart broken. Your...

Fifteen years ago, I was standing at the bar when a friend I’d only just met gave me a piece of advice. “Right now it will feel like you...

A spark ignites. A flame begins to flicker. A hot air balloon lifts up off the ground. It sets out on a course, before answering to the...

They say life gives you what you need; not always what you want. 'They' also say that you can't control the cards you're dealt; just how...

The first time I I fell in love I had a camera in my hands. Through the looking glass I saw my fears, my insecurities, my regrets, my...

That's what you do, right? You get on with it. Or at least you try to. I put one foot in front of the other, feel the sun on my skin,...

They say you don't know what you've got until it's gone. Or that you don't know how much something meant until it's taken away from you....

Isn't it fascinating the way smell can transport you back in time? Rain on a summers day. Eucalyptus oil and menthol on your grandpa's...

The memory of old flames and the bitter taste of their names. Watching my grandfather's soul leave his body next to his hospital bed....

"Mummy, why do people get married?" A little voice perks up from the back seat. When my pre-schooler isn't probing me about his next...

Two shots of tequila deep but it's no antidote for the guilt. Heart beating Lust waning Time passing Another glass of wine And I convince...

We throw caution to the wind and we fantasise about leaving it all behind. our hands clasp, lips meet, you bring me to my knees and you...

It's 2009. Another month. Another session. And I'm reunited with the elephant-grey recliner. I sink deep into the chair and cross my...

I’m freefalling in an alternate world and before I know it I’m lost in a fantasy thinking what it would be like to freeze time to be on a...

Dear Michelle, While your 20s were masked with blind optimism, your 30s will have you believe that staying married to the same person is...

I remember sitting down to breakfast when I was maybe 8 or 9. My mum put a bowl of noodle soup in front of me. It takes her two days to...

Those close to me know I’m unapologetically straight up about how much I’ve struggled with being a mother since becoming one almost five...

It is the middle of January, two thousand and sixteen. At 33 weeks pregnant, you swear black and blue you're never ever gonna be pregnant...

CANDLELIGHT FLICKERS. And I sit across from him, doing a business deal at 6 o'clock on a Sunday evening. The deal was this: if I leave, I...

A symphony of awkward silences orchestrate a merry-go-round of melodies ever so tenderly. Three months ago, he would be tracing his...