Category: Reflections
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Reading Roster, May 2025

I am chaotic in my reading style. Often working my way through ten or more books at any given time, with a few more titles started then set aside. Here, I break down the titles I am currently focussed on reading as well as any thoughts they’ve brought about. Hell…
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Reflections, Q3 2024

As the clocks turn back and the days shorten my motivations reflect the change, lessening by staggering amounts each and every day. It is difficult to feel the spice of life when surrounded by leaves that crunch like broken bones or trees, withered and skeletal, clawing at tangles of birds…
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Career Musings

When I was much younger, there were so many possibilities I could envision for my future. I’d always been creative – drawing, crafting, writing stories – though there were other things I’d considered too, vetinarian, farmer, filmmaker, baker, and coder. I gave academics a fair shot. I studied four seperate…
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Reflections, Q2 2024

The arrival of the half-year slowly melts me until I am nought but a puddle of stewing ideas. The cooler moments– on an evening as the sun sets, in a cafe, hiar frazzled by air conditioning, on a bench in the pub sticing to the leather booth that’s buried beneath…
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Strong Female Character: Thoughts and Reflections

One of my goals this year was to borrow books from my local libraries. Borrowing from libraries is great; they have a broad selection of many genres and reading levels, including accessible and foreign language books. They also have required return dates, encouraging me to read the ones I borrow.…
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Reflections, Q1 2024

Time passed frustratingly slowly at December’s end, leaving me ample time to stew in my excitement for the new year. Anticipation bubbled in me like an office water fountain and motivation simmered as wonderings about the opportunities a fresh year would bring flooded my brain. Stepping into 2024, I found…