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First and Foremost

The idea to start this blog came as the culmination of a number of things.  As I have started studying an accounting degree, I have started to somewhat neglect my writing (of plays, short stories,...

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He stands on the tar…

He stands on the tar, his toes graze the newly painted lines – white as the flag. The journey is clear, the grass beckons. It promises closure, meaning, the proverbial ‘new beginning’.   But behind him...

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The Power of Personal Testimony

Last night I finally got around to watching a film that I have been meaning to see for a very long time – ‘Schindler’s List’.  The tragic story details one of the worst periods in the history of...

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A New Beginning – Shanghai, China

Credit: iamuday I realise that I haven’t written a blog post for a long while, and there is a very good reason for that. Over the last two months I was fortunate enough to go over to live and work in...

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A Letter to Myself

Image by Kevin Dooley under Creative Commons Licence Dear me, Stop waiting for your dreams to fall in your lap!  The world doesn’t owe you a thing.  You have to go and fight for what you want.  It...

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Be Real.

Photo: Pilottage I sit here, alone, at 2.30 in the morning, watching and listening to the sea crashing on my doorstep. I listen hesitantly to what is happening inside – my friend is having what I can...

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Pull Back… Zoom In.

Photo: JD Hancock You look down at your cellphone. Pull back. You are sitting in a crowded room. Pull back. The alcohol is flowing, people are chatting excitedly and a steady hum of noise fills the...

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Twitter Fiction

Original Storyboard from Jennifer Egan’s short story: ‘Black Box’ Creativity comes in all different shapes and sizes, and it constantly adapts to fit in with the societal playground that it finds...

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Excuses.

Things did not go my way last week.  To say the least. I have been sitting here trying to figure out how to write up all that’s gone awry recently, because I really don’t want to be one of those...

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