Notes on My Life

excerpts from notes on my life

  • Homecoming

    What a long, strange trip it was, this summer. I can’t believe I let myself stop writing, but I didn’t really have much of a choice. Well, I guess there is always a choice to be made, and the choice I made was to not write. You see, I had to clarify that as I’m… Read more

  • Rock Bottom

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  • A Day Like This

    Yesterday my daughter had her first communion. It was a lovely occasion and a new tradition to me. As I was raised Protestant, I was confirmed at 14. I was baptised during the same period, as I hadn’t been baptised as a baby or small child. This fact alone gave me suspicion about the entire… Read more

  • Memories, Real and Imagined

    This morning I woke up in a fog to the sound of the children creeping down the stairs to watch TV. I got up, feeling somewhat rested as I slept early the night before. As I was making coffee I realised I had been dreaming, back in the familiar architecture of my dreams. I was… Read more

  • A Year in Vulnerability

    I had this idea a while ago: what if I committed to a year of living in vulnerability? This is inspired by the work of Brene Brown, a brilliant mind in a field that she has come to define by scientifically examining how people process trauma and life experience, and how it defines their personality,… Read more

  • Nothing Left to Prove

    What do I feel like I am trying to prove? This is the question of the day in the course I am doing so I thought I’d address it here, where the space is unlimited. I want to prove to my self that I can change, that I can do this, that I can live… Read more