My Journey
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Blogaversary and update
I have been super busy lately, and as warned, have not been posting much but yesterday, 7 November 2012 was exactly one year since I started this blog. It is also my 82nd post. Amazing. I think it is incredible to look at what I’ve done over the last year, to take stock of all…
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NaNoWriMo
I know a few people who have done NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month it was started in 1999 in San Francisco and the aim is to write a novel, that is at least 50,000 words long, in a month. The idea is to help writers to…
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Why can’t I just stay in bed?
It’s hard to explain my depression to someone who’s never been through it. It’s normal for people to feel sad sometimes, everyone has times like that and there is a comfort in knowing that you have something to be sad about. For me, at this moment in time, I’m sad for no reason. I feel…
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Accepted!
I found out on Thursday that a short story I submitted was accepted to be published in a local writers’ magazine. Now I don’t know exactly what the distribution of the magazine is, nor what sort of scope of readership it has but none the less – I will soon be able to say that…
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What it means to admit I have depression.
I have struggled with depression a lot in my life I have just turned 28. The first time I was referred to the school counselor I was 11 years old. After that I saw several counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and family therapists throughout my school life and early adulthood. When I was 14 I tried to kill myself. Not…
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To be a poet or worse a novelist!
Now I bet you’re all thinking that I’m going to start talking about my recent writing escapades, but you’d be wrong. In fact I’ve taken this phrase (or at least something very like this phrase) from the play ‘School for Wives’ by Moliere. Last Tuesday I saw the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of School for…
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Renewing Old Friendships
I have written before about how my journey has taken me away from people who used to hold important places in my life. This last week I made it my goal to get back in touch with people who I believe are going to be positive influences in my life but with whom, for various…
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Adelaide Adventure
This week I spent three days in Adelaide doing training for work. I had intended to have a bit of a wander around the city and get some photos of the different architecture and other stuff that I wouldn’t see in Melbourne. However my knee is still pretty sore so walking a long way was…
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Hard days and nights
This last couple of days have been particularly hard for me. In addition to being cooped up inside for the second week in a row I’ve been going through some pretty heavy self-reflection. I had a run in with my estranged father. He came across this blog and I was horrified. I couldn’t put my…
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My Bionic Knee
If you have read one of my last posts, you would know that I’ve had a complete rupture of my left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and last Friday I had to have the ligament reconstructed using tendons from the bottom of my hamstring. The surgery was a successful. The tendon that replaced the old ligament…
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