Learning Portuguese as an adult hasn’t been easy. But watching my niece learn to speak has changed how I think about language, mistakes, immersion, and progress. A reflection on connection, curiosity, and learning one word at a time.

A reflection on decision-making, fear, and the realisation that not choosing is still a choice. This essay explores career decisions, instinct, risk, and what changed when I finally stopped waiting for certainty and chose something anyway.

A reflection on work, money, and security—and what changed when I stopped seeing salaried work and self-employment as opposites. This essay explores business models, creative freedom, and what happens when you ask: what if my life were already a business?

A reflection on the routines and habits that have been saving my life lately. From writing things down and evening prep to creative rituals and rest, this is a gentle inventory of the small practices making everyday life feel more manageable.

A gentle reflection on long-held dreams, changing seasons, and what it means to listen to who you are now. This essay explores music, community, and how releasing a dream can be an act of care rather than failure.

A reflection on why I stopped trying to organise my life into neat categories and started putting everything in one place. Notes, lists, ideas, poems, work, home—one book, one brain, one source of truth. This is about the quiet power of a commonplace book and what happens when you stop over-engineering how you think.

How living intentionally with less led me to embracing my loaf pan life!