Personal substack for my thoughts, written and visual. I write on awe, climate/environment, documentary photography, single motherhood/parenting, time and memory, healing, trauma, grief AND (let's end on a good note) Love. How all of these things overlap.
I dig with my pen and my lens. Writer. Photographer. (she/her) Drawn to light✨
I’m an Irish mamaí on a Halifax pier.
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
MFA in Creative Nonfiction (Class of '26)✨
Member: Women Photograph
I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.
I usually type about one page a day here on an old manual typewriter. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases originated via links to Amazon products in my Substack posts.
Top 40 in Parenting: Asking and attempting to answer various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of post-analysis, perimenopausal midlife from home in Glasgow, Scotland
Mainly a photography journal. And some musings connecting the dots between photos and everyday life.