Happily Ever After
I had the dream wedding. The fairy tale. The extravagance. For two years I consumed my time, my mind and my every essence with preparing for the “big day”. I had a team of supporters. I needed a team. My family. My in-laws. My cousins. The excitement was contagious. The momentum unavoidable. I was young…
Read MoreThree o’clock in the morning
I dread the moments when I wake up at three o’clock in the morning. Three o’clock in the morning was once spent stumbling home from a night out. A time of nightclubs, high heels, smudged makeup and a whole day ahead of me to sleep. Three o’clock in the morning was more recently spent with…
Read MoreThe First Night
I look back on that first night and the memory is a haze. I couldn’t think. I could barely move. Your Dad was on a roll-out bed on the floor next to me. You were in one of those hospital plastic cots beside him. I was dead tired. Drained. Exhausted. In pain. You were crying.…
Read MoreDiary of a Virgin Blogger – Problogger!
I survived my first blogging conference! More than survived, I came out of two intense days with a wealth of knowledge and a momentum to work on some amazing ideas. Yes, walking into a room full of people I didn’t know that Friday morning was scary. My nerves kicked in and the introvert inside me…
Read MoreDistance Makes the Heart Ache
It is hard to escape who I am. The weight of it is sometimes a little hard to bear. I look in the mirror and see many faces, not just mine. I am a link. A link in a chain. A chain that is etched in gold, intricate, strong and intertwining. The chain spans generations,…
Read MoreDiary of a Virgin Blogger – Catch the Wind
The past week has been nothing short of a whirlwind. My blog has gone live. I am publishing posts. Readers are actually leaving comments. The whole experience of the past week has left me feeling quite surreal. To begin with, I wasn’t even sure if anyone would read my blog. So to have people read,…
Read MoreRoad Trip
Ten adults, two toddlers, one baby, four cars. There were only two possibilities. This was going to be good. Or more realistically, this was going to be very, very bad. One group chat on whats app: “road trip.” And I was to blame. After we finally got our entire luggage and all of AJ’s Lego…
Read MoreDiary of a Virgin Blogger – The Haircut
It seems that an eternity has passed since my leap of faith. May has quickly become September and now that exhilarating, overwhelming leap of faith is a little bit of a fizzle. A little bit of a fizzle and a whole lot of “what have I done?” Wandering around the house on the weekend it…
Read MoreThe Old Photos
Drunk with paella. Numb from the noise. Early December and an early Christmas lunch. It was late in the afternoon and a lull had finally settled over the house. The cousins were spread out on the couch, on the floor. One of them pulled out an old box. There was nothing special about this box.…
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