Blog Posts
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl is all sugar and spice, all sweetness and light. Until he disappoints her. Then she becomes a scared, wounded animal. Daddy’s Girl holds tight to her fantasy of the perfect man. Her Prince Charming. Her Sir Galahad. She’s certain that some day, he’ll show...
Dear Shame & Perfection – I’ve met someone else…
Dear Perfection, I love you. I love you for all the times you kept me safe. Stopped me from moving ahead before I was ready. Saved me from making a mistake and being humiliated. Held me back while others rushed into the fire and got burned. Thank you for warning me of...
the machine inside me: a love story
Part of me is a machine. A cyborg - part human, part robot. I call her Caprica 6, after the tall blonde cylon in Battlestar Galactica who so desperately wants to be loved. When I worked for a software company, to call someone a machine was to pay them a huge...
the power of dark places and the mystery of shadow work
I try to be real and honest with myself and with the world, especially through the words I write. I have threshold moments where I realise I’ve been as real and honest as I was able… but a new level’s opened up. Something shifts and suddenly I can’t ignore an...
the small details of life
This last month, I've been coming to terms with some of the small details of my life. Money. Work. Home. Relationships. In every area, I've found things I'd have preferred not to see. Like my resistance to budgeting. Or the story that doing any form of outside work...
a whole new age
Half the year is over. It’s been six months since my world turned upside down. Six months of re-evaluating everything I thought I knew and everything I thought was true. Slowly, I’m starting to write again. I've made some changes around my online home. For me, they...