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This was meant to be a Christmas story, but time has had a habit of escaping from me this 2025. We’ll have to make this a year-end reflection of sorts…
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I’ve always been fascinated by the ocean. Since I was a toddler, Pa and Ma would take us to the beach. We’d spend hours looking for things in the sand…
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When I turned six, Nintendo released their Game Boy Advance SP console followed shortly by their remakes of the first Pokémon games – LeafGreen & FireRed. Pa gave my brother…
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It might seem strange to say, but plants (and flowers) have always felt quite alive to me. As a child, I used to help my Nenek weed the garden, pulling…
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I’ve always had a very specific memory about my mother. As a child, I was brought quite often to the park outside our home, pushed there in a stroller or…
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She was somewhat of a ‘hard’ woman, our grandmother. She wasn’t tender, or anything like the grandmothers I used to read about in those inch-thick Enid Blyton books. We called…