Tag: writing
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Episode 62 – Friday Night Lights… and Gaslights…
Under the Will, Over the Drama – A Bulky Tale… Once upon a Friday night, in the land of late-night chipper runs and family duty rotas, my other brother Saul was on his usual noble quest: Friday Night with Dad. He arrived armed with battered sausages, curry chips and a salt-and-vinegar sword – a true…
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The Perfect Family (Was A Lie)…
When Did It Really Start? Lately, I’ve been asking myself a question I’m not sure I can fully answer: When did all this really start? The dysfunction. The self-doubt. The feeling that no matter what I did, it would never be good enough. I don’t have a date or a moment. But I know it…
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Episode 60 – The Price of Bread and the Cost of Dignity…
‘If you don’t provide receipts for the money supplied for food and household items, we’ll be taking over the shopping next week.’ That was it. No greeting. No question. No interest in how anyone was managing. Just an instruction. A quiet little power move slipped into my phone like a landmine in my pocket. On…
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What’s the Point of All This? (Asking for a Soul)
Lately, I’ve been sitting with some of the big questions, the kind that don’t get polite answers. Why am I here?What is this life actually about?Why does so much feel… fake? Some days, it hits like a quiet ache. Other days it’s a full-on existential scream into the void. You know the one. Is this…
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Petty Theft: When Control Comes in Small, Insignificant Acts..
You know what people rarely talk about when it comes to family dysfunction?The pettiness. The sneaky, petty little acts that aren’t big enough to scream about but leave a bruise all the same. The acts that, over time, tell you everything you need to know about someone’s need for control. I’ve lived this. I still…
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One Month In: I Had No Clue What I Was Doing and People Still Showed Up…
One Month In: I Had No Clue What I Was Doing… and People Still Showed Up A month ago, I started this blog with zero idea what I was doing. ( I had been writing thing down over the years for clarity!) No fancy plan, no tech expertise, just a gut feeling that I needed…
UNDER THE WILL... OVER THE DRAMA... 