My granddad’s eyes.
A little while ago, I received a message from indie writer Jamie Hoang saying “What would you do if you learned you’d be going blind in six weeks?” Her book Blue Sun, […]
Tag Archives: Family
The time we got lost in the mountains.
My mum and I refer to this day as August 9. Not only because it refers to the date of “the event” but also because August 9 happens to be her birthday. […]
Memory is a funny mechanism.
I have spoken about memory before. In fact, I have come to realise that memory is an important theme in my writing, both in my blog posts and in […]
We have no control over what we remember.
We all have random memories, some are as vague as a dream, others a little more defined and others that only exist in photo albums. There is also those uncertain moments, […]
My mother is everything my father wasn’t.
There you have it. One of the few musical appearances you will find of me on the web. I have decided to share this song with you because today is […]
My mother is like water.
It is Fiction Friday time again and to a certain extent, today’s extract was inspired by my own mother to whom, if I had a little more time today, I would dedicate […]
Play. Pause. Breathe.
Einstein said it first, time moves at different speeds. It is an erratic, whimsical friend who speeds and slows as he pleases. Here, at home, time moves slow. The sun is […]
A writer's caravan 