by Tina | Oct 24, 2026 | France
A boulangerie with a singing shopkeeper, short coffees, warm croissants, and older men cradling their drinks whilst half-sitting and standing. Suddenly, silence descends as they all head back to their lives, and we sit alone with the shadows. Plouigneau,...
by Tina | Oct 24, 2026 | Essays, Life & Loss
The cottage, photographed in 1991. I ran over to the big plastic bag. Her long plastic legs with white shoes stuck right out from the top. “Mommy, she’s here,” I shouted as Daddy took the pram off the train. Mommy was carrying my baby brother and she found it...
by Tina | Oct 12, 2026 | Essays, Life & Loss
In the empty house, hidden behind a mass of mangled bushes, there was a life. A life that existed parallel to mine. Two stones on a beach, aligned in our own spaces. Time and tide moved through us, around us, but we were always there. That was until just a short week... by Tina | Nov 24, 2024 | Notebook, Writing Journal
Jeeps, it has been an age since I posted here. A deep sadness has been with me for the past year, and honestly, I didn’t feel much like writing. In July, I lost my Dad to cancer unexpectedly, and my heart completely broke. But before he died, he got to see one...
