Essays
I write about life, loss, memory, place and the small things that often go unnoticed.
These essays begin with something observed, remembered or encountered — an empty house, an old photograph, a familiar place, an ordinary moment — and follow where it leads.
1975, I Was Five
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 difficult...
The Empty House
A neighbouring house falls silent, leaving behind the traces of two lives and a reflection on the empty spaces we all eventually leave behind.
Nettle Soup
The Extra in the Ordinary, exploring exciting and strange facts and fiction around everyday things...
Dandelion to Drone
In this series of The Extra in the Ordinary, I will explore exciting and strange facts and fiction...