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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The Real Girl Math
We joke about girl math as if the strangest female calculation is justifying a handbag on sale. But the real girl math is quieter: outfit against commute, shortcut against streetlight, empty seat against stranger.
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Mothers, Mistakes, and the Myth of Perfection
We placed mothers on pedestals and called it respect, without noticing how quickly admiration turns into expectation. The moment women become symbols of sacrifice and strength, they stop being allowed complexity, mistakes, exhaustion, anger, ambition, or even ordinary humanity.
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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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Women: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves
Women are often asked to explain choices that men make without a story. Work, travel, ambition, self-care, success, even distance from people. All arrive with a justification attached. Here are some of the stories women learn to tell before anyone asks, and the uncomfortable truth of how often we pass them on.
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Silence: The Stories We Don’t Tell Out Loud
Some silences are taught as safety before we understand them as silence. They arrive as instructions, advice, concern, and protection, until one day you realise you are still walking through the world with your eyes straight ahead.
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