Of Passwords and Technology, And About 30 Seconds of Nostalgia
in 2014, I wondered how many passwords does an average person have? Today, I found the answer!
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Life Stories
Life Stories is where the ordinary things sit before they become stories. A sentence overheard, a room remembered, a small irritation, a moment that looked harmless at first and then refused to leave. These pieces are about everyday life, memory, family, work, identity, and the strange ways we become ourselves while doing everything else.
Start with these life stories
- Still Not Journalling
- We Could Have Been Gen Y
- What The A to Z Challenge Taught Me About Storytelling
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Are You Friends With Feedback?
Feedback didn’t exist in my childhood. There was praise, which was rationed like sugar during a diet, and criticism, which flowed like Lassi during Langar. Nobody told us there was a third thing. Turns out there was, and I’m still not sure we’re friends.
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The Tiny Fame of Ordinary People
The tiny fame of ordinary people is the strange visibility social media gives us in our own small circles. It is not celebrity. It is school moms, old friends, cousins and acquaintances knowing bits of your life before you tell them yourself.
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Perfection Is the Problem
Perfection is the problem when it stops being about doing things well and becomes a way of measuring your worth. A personal essay on perfectionism, self-criticism, good enough, and the impossible yardstick we carry through work, home, rest, and ordinary life.
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Still Not Journalling
I thought I disliked journaling because I don’t do well with prompts. Then I realised the problem was not the blank page. It was what the blank page might reveal.
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We Could Have Been Gen Y
We could have been Gen Y. Instead, we became millennials: the generation that remembers landlines and floppy disks, but somehow also has to manage passwords, updates, and overflowing cloud storage.
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What The A to Z Challenge Taught Me About Storytelling
I started the A to Z Challenge thinking I had chosen storytelling as a theme. Twenty-six posts later, I realised I had been writing about people, survival, identity, discomfort, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going.
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Zero: The Stories We Tell About Starting Over
We call it a fresh start, a new chapter, ground zero. But sometimes the story of starting over is less about becoming someone new, and more about finding the courage to begin while carrying everything we always carry.
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Yes: The Stories We Tell When We Have No Choice
Sometimes, Yes doesn’t arrive as a decision. It arrives as duty, peacekeeping, family expectation, and survival. Then, years later, we call it “how things went” because that is easier to live with.
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Xenial: The Stories We Tell Around Hospitality
What looks like warmth from the outside often feels like responsibility from the inside. This is a story about overfeeding guests, hiding effort, and the inherited performance of hospitality.
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