A couple of weeks ago, my blog quietly celebrated its first birthday. It was all very under-the-radar, I didn’t even put up a post to mark the occasion. To be honest, the only reason I knew it was coming up was because I received an invoice for the renewal fee. And that got me thinking…
Calling Time
Excitement here as one of my short stories, Calling Time, has been published on WORDLY Online. WORDLY Online (and its print counterpart WORDLY Magazine) is a literature publication of Deakin University. The publication includes everything from short fiction (like sci-fi piece Orb of Desecration), creative non-fiction (such as Eilean Donan which blends personal essay and…
Mickey’s parents
Shocked and repulsed by my expression of love your virtue pervades the air like tea steeped too long always you tried to contain me in the same blue box where you live your life your neat little frock and neat little face hiding the big black pool of nothingness that exists inside you aren’t my…
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You may have noticed that I’m not posting much at the moment. Or maybe you haven’t. It’s cool either way. You’ll always be welcome here. 🙂 Anyway, I thought I’d drop in to let you know that the reason I haven’t been around much (actually, there’s more than one reason, but that’s something for another…
The stories we tell ourselves
When I wrote this piece, I was questioning the idea that our experiences make us who we are; a belief that had, until then, provided me with both justification and reassurance. I’d come across the work of Kahneman who suggests that it is not an experience per se that we remember; what we remember is…
All in the name of research
I’d have to say that one of the best things about being a writer is that you can justify anything under the guise of ‘research’. Okay, maybe you can’t justify anything anything, but you can pretty much justify most things. As long as it isn’t illegal. Or immoral. Or bad taste. But everything other than…
Rarely linear, sometimes chaotic, always meaningful
One of my dear writing friends wrote to me recently, saying that she thought she shouldn’t be blogging because she felt that her semi-regular posts which touched on a range of topics made it look as though she had five personalities. ‘Your posts don’t strike me as being inconsistent at all,’ I reassured her. ‘If…
The Sometimes Diary of Nina Thirkettle
Tuesday 24 May Forgive me, Diary, for I have not written for many weeks now. If you could have the good grace to grant me some absolution or whatever it is that you diary types are empowered to bestow, I would be much obliged forever in your debt less inclined to throw you in the…
Beauty
Look. Do you see? There in the lengthening shadows, in the dappled light kissing the roses. There, where each petal caresses the next. There. Look. You will see.
Multifaceted, not multiple
Interviewer: Great to have your here to talk about what it means to have multiple online identities. Me: Absolutely. Except, of course, that I don’t buy into the idea of multiple identities. Interviewer: Okay. Can you elaborate? Me: Well, I play many different roles in my life. And even though I give myself wholeheartedly to…
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