Last year saw many people suddenly start to pay attention to extent of racism and white supremacy in our society and the damage it has wrought, and facing a reckoning with the role we ourselves have played in upholding and perpetuating these harmful systems. In June, I wrote this post sharing my first clumsy steps [...]
If Hope is the thing with feathers Why does it weigh so heavy on my heart? The lifting of those hopeful wings Seems over before it starts. If Hope is the thing with feathers Where’s the softness? Where’s the smooth? Where’s the chance to leave the ground Without the burden of painful truth? If Hope [...]
Hello, friends. It's been a while. I don't know about you, but 2020 somehow seemed to both drag on forever and disappear in the blink of an eye. It had its joyful moments (those are always there if we look for them) but was largely weighed down with uncertainty, anxiety and many unexpected challenges. Stepping [...]
It has been a whole year today since I first sent my little book out into the world. When I published, Thrive, I did it for myself, with very few expectations in the way of sales, reviews or reach. It is a small book with a small readership written with the simple hope that it [...]
We spend so much of ourselvesTrying not toFeel. Even when we are marked for emotionIt has to beControlled. We can only feelCertain thingsAt certain timesIn certain placesFor certain reasons.And anything that falls outside that tinyImpossibleBox, is completelyUnacceptable. Sometimes I don’t know ifI’m angryAt myself or the world, butI’m angryNonetheless. I would call on the power [...]
It only took a handful of years after the fall for the wild to reclaim the land. It crept and wrapped itself around the hostile world. Mother Nature embracing her unruly child, turning rebellion into submission. All we had built with such disregard crumbed to dust, subsumed by the earth. What is the work of [...]
Happy publication day to Rebecca Zahabi’s The Game Weavers! I’m honoured to be kicking off the blog tour for this brilliant book and am excited to see it head out into the world and into the hands of readers. It’s always refreshing to read a book that’s a bit different, that feels original, and that’s [...]
Much though I'm a sucker for a big chunky book or a long series, in recent years I have had a growing love for the short story. Short stories can be incredibly powerful, but it takes real skill to craft them effectively. Dreena Collins has well and truly mastered that skill. In her forward to [...]
The words haven't come easy these last few months. The world is heavy and navigating life seems to have sapped my creative well dry. It has been a month since I wrote anything for Thrive In Chaos, despite having numerous part-started posts and lists of ideas on my phone. Since March, my notebooks have mostly [...]
Punctuation is the breath of writing,I used to tell them.It signals the pause and inhale between your words,The lilt of the silent voice that will ring with your stories through their heads.Again and again I would try to explainThis here, not there -Without that, when would you come up for air?You’ll lose all meaningIt won’t [...]
