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The View From Here

A fringe-dweller’s story about making a contribution to society

Feb 20, 2024

The View From Here

Feb 20, 2024

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Relics of Ash and Memory

The reflections in a mid-century ashtray.

Oct 21

a photograph from the 1970s of two ladies, one with hair in rollers, sitting at a table and a wisp of smoke curls across the frame

Oct 21

Schooling the Kacky-Hander

Childhood trauma, freeze response and the illusion of certainty

Apr 5

Photograph of an older woman wearing a pink dress and standing in front of a rusted shipping container

Apr 5

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A Drawer Full of Bones, A Hat Full of Sky

Raising a fearless daughter who can resist the ‘hivers’

Dec 18, 2024

A photo of a young girl leaning against a motorbike that is loaded up with camping gear

Dec 18, 2024

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An Afternoon In My Strawberry Fields

Where there’s nothing to get hung about

Dec 7, 2024

A woman relaxing in an old bathtub outdoors, holding a glass of wine

Dec 7, 2024

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Waiting for the Conviction to Dive

If the tide was high at just the right early hour of the day, we would go to the river

Oct 5, 2024

A photo of a woman standing on top of a dune and looking away to the sky

Oct 5, 2024

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A Bittersweet Love Letter to Singular Cows, Like Me

One night when the power went off, I wished it would never come on again

Sep 8, 2024

Photo of a cow standing in a paddock in the morning fog

Sep 8, 2024

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The Regrettable Impermanence of the Digital Medium

A cautionary fairy tale about how I lost years of digital work

Aug 11, 2024

A sepia-toned image of a fairy sitting on a rock surrounded by tree roots

Aug 11, 2024

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When Books Become Horcruxes

I’ve stashed little pieces of me inside them: they are the keepers of my identity

Jul 17, 2024

Photo of a late-middle aged woman reading a book called Everything a Teenage Girl Needs to Know

Jul 17, 2024

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The Weight of My Wants

A homeless stranger erodes my happy little working-class rut

Jun 25, 2024

An incongruous photo of a woman reading Shakespeare in an abandoned pig shed.

Jun 25, 2024

Margaret Dean

Margaret Dean

Neurodivergent, semi-reclusive oddbod. Sometime biker, sometime photographer, oftentime just very confused. Still waiting for clarity in my late middle age.

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