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The illusion of ‘new’
In theory, fresh starts are great: you get a clean slate, a new life, the chance to reinvent yourself and lay the past to rest. In reality, the break is never clean – past actions have consequences,...
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On Reality
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.. …so said Salman Rushdie. The corollary is that memory is deceptive, and nostalgia can...
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A Question of Happiness
Between bites of peri-peri chicken and sips of Coke Zero, my friend Des asked me if I was happy. She – amongst all my long term friends – complains the least about my propensity to wall them off from...
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Certainly Uncertain….
A few days ago, mid way through a telephone conversation with one of the lads I used to work with in my UX5 days, the delectable lass who joined a few months before I was due to leave overheard our...
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Girl Crush-ing… Hypothetically….
I think I have a crush. …… And what is perhaps most disconcerting about the waxing and waning of this particular attraction is just how atypical its advent has been. For one she is well and truly...
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#148 – Homeward
For prompt 148 at the Magpie Tales, a repost. ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Though tears like a river course down like rain, And your heart by cupid’s fiery barbs is rent. Although your cracked voice breaks out in...
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On Crime and Punishment
Growing up I learned that punishment could be redemptive, are we missing a trick by not extending the chance of rehabilitation to Ched Evans?
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On Loving, and (Not) Marrying…
[Source] When I was seventeen, I was sure that I would be married by the time I turned twenty-seven. I knew the date, Saturday the 7th of July 2007, who she would be and the song we would say our vows...
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On Life, and a Song
The end of the day Remember the days When we were close to the edge And we’ll wonder How we made it through the night The end of the day Remember the way We stayed so close till the end We’ll remember...
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