rambling

Recently, I was asked to run a creative writing workshop. I have the following as my bio and my idea of what the session would look like:...

The letter box was stuffed with matter. As the rain pelt down after the long drive home, I was surprised that the parcel of letters and d...

A body. My body. I am within it, I am it, and I am experiencing it, and through it, I can also experience the world. Others experience th...

Bathing is such a strange and vulnerable thing. You throw yourself in the water, and can't do much else but think. Sure, you can read a ...

Unlike some of my friends, I do not go to see the Ocean to worship its watery depths on a regular basis. I see it sparingly, by necessity...

In the constructed world, we are surrounded by instructions and warnings. They're literally called signs. Sometimes, I try to find humour...

Human creation, like this very text, is the output of a complex network of chemicals, reactions, re-reactions, electrical signals, and wh...

Today, the sun blazed away in the sky, just like any other day. It tried to burn me, to coax sweat from my body, and to get me to surrend...

Happiness hit her, like a train on a track This is not the introduction you would expect from the likes of Florence Welsh and her maste...

Art endures. We have seen cave paintings from thousands of years ago. We know about the pieces that are closely guarded and constantly p...

As a little girl, I used to pour ash in circles on my belly, to ward off dead babies. I called on ancient symbols my childish mind had n...

The Chesterfield is everywhere. It is found in the dark corners of cosy dive bars. It's in the window of the cafe, where elegant people s...

TLDR: Realise fan is broken Call electrician expecting big bill Get kitchen chair and put into shower cubicle Break plastic shroud of ol...

A few weekends ago, I did something rare. I ventured out of the house with a direct plan of what it was I was going to eat, on account of...

Have you ever sat down at the shore, and looked out upon the waves that crash upon it? With each tug of the moon’s gentle craters, the oc...

Since I moved house, I've been regularly going to the gym. I am approaching forty years of age, and with that, some biological clocks sta...

I recently published a short story, The Oak Edition - which forms one of the many stories in an anthology of fiction that I would like to...

I've played every single mainline Final Fantasy game - except the cursed XI. I haven't finished Final Fantasy XVI yet, because every tim...

I've known about the existence of this particular community for quite some time, but as someone with a website, an instagram page, and a ...

One month on. It is now one month since I last held the status of "full time employee". After thirteen years at the business I ...

It was a Saturday. I had a long day planned. In the morning, I wanted to go and see an exhibition called "Forever", which focus...

Every year, or every few months, or every, some unspecified length of time, I get to thinking about the relationship of time, light and p...

Have you ever imagined Hive without seeing its reward mechanism? I got excited when I logged in today as I was trying to change my rewar...

Before I had a beard, I had Within Temptation CDs. Before I even had Within Temptation CDs, I did not know that my lifelong (so far) love...

I cannot recall if I've mentioned anywhere on HVIE that I have taken up playing the piano. Come to think of it, I think that I have, but ...

At my old house, I had a squat rack, a bench, and about 130KG of plates. I used them every single day for about 12 months, and I was pret...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about buying my dream lens. That lens was none other than the Nikon 85mm f/1.2 and at long last, I decided ...

I get this feeling sometimes that the world's playing with me, a little bit at a time. By which I mean, jiggles me by the odds and gawky,...

A few days ago, I was browsing LinkedIn, as I'm in a position where I'm looking for a change. As I doom scrolled through the feeds of my ...

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