Yesterday, I met a man. A Vietnamese restaurant owner and chef to be exact. Ordinary and smoking, he stood unassuming outside of the restaurant. We stumbled upon it by chance, after loosing ourselves down the hidden alleyways of Hoi An Acient Town. He was dealing in ‘comfort food’. Being over 6000 miles away from home, [...]
Category: Healing
Confessions of an Introvert: Separation
A couple of months ago, I started a free Creative Writing course through the Open University, titled ‘Writing what you know’. At the time, it seemed like an important step in my over-optimistic and dare I say it, naive plan to try to turn my passion for writing into some sort of career. Currently, the [...]
Confessions of an Introvert: Starting Therapy
Yesterday was a bad day. I ran myself the bubbliest of baths, lit some candles and let myself collapse into the bubbles and cry my heart out. I never know why I end up crying, it’s sometimes all I can do. I usually wake up feeling a little bit lighter, but today was an even [...]
“I might do something rash…”: A tale about letting weeds grow
I took this photo on the 2nd January, I don’t know what made me take it. I don’t particularly like it. Even looking at it now makes me feel vulnerable and self-conscious about putting it out into my little corner of the internet. But, it was a new year, a fresh start and I was [...]
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