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About Afghanistan
The place that I have dreamed about and wished to go more than any other is Afghanistan. My great concern with my life’s work has always been about seeing the world and describing it for other people. I come from a landlocked, remote part of the United States. I went to high school in an…
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Writing for your worth
It takes me a good, hearty exhale to start writing a post like this. I have been thinking about it all day. Ruminating on it over morning emails. Having conversations about it in my head during an afternoon walk. Discussing it with my best friend over text. In my life, I really have had no…
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Shoulder-of-Mutton Hill
Saturday. It is supposed to be hot – well, hot by English standards, but when you are used to cool weather, 27 feels hot – and I am going in search of the poet Edward Thomas. It’s not the first time. Midsummer 2019, I went in search of the footpaths of Edward Thomas and his…
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Poem on a thesis of romance
What is it you thinkI wantsome bouquet of conventions, lame dinners, fakery,cliched on balloons with coiled ribbons?Sometimes my words are uncomfortable(y)My mouth gets it wrong, what my heart wants.Romance: it’s not an arc-shot kisssoundtracked by a hipster ballad;it’s not anything except when – being just you – that is enough.But there are some things I…
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2021 Travel Resolution
I was recently approached by a major travel publisher and asked to write a short contribution to a round-up of authors offering their travel resolutions for 2021. The piece was to be about 150 words and include a photo. I was offered US$40 for this. I wrote the piece, focusing on two places I would…
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Longing; The Ride Home
It’s the kind of Sunday for lazing – maybe all Sundays are? – pouring a second, then a third cup of tea. Standing in the kitchen, cocked hip, savouring the way soy milk pours in thick swirls, wrapping myself in a long cardigan, pulling it round as if it will stave away shivers from the…
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Honest Year-in-Review
If I look back carefully, this year was actually really good to me. I was strong and I did a lot of things. I got a new lease on my work life. I read heaps of books and rested. I became an International Dark-Sky Delegate at the beginning of the year and by the end…
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Purge
I am the sort of person who doesn’t like anyone to see me not being strong. I was raised by a parent with some deep-seated emotional issues and being strong was a coping mechanism. When I excelled and was capable, I was rewarded with attention, which was the only form of maternal ‘love’ I ever…
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