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Mom

Mom

9 minutes of unbelievable violence changed everything. You - the kindest, gentlest person imaginable - were robbed of peace forever. Four years later and there is still evidence of how you were beaten. But deeper than this is what you experienced. You have faced the...

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Toxic chat

Toxic chat

I wrote about losing everything.Nothing hurts more than losing people you are close to. During the challenges I've faced over the past few years, some of the loss of those people happened due to toxic chat. I know, because I was told about it or given the clues. When...

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My music obsessions

My music obsessions

What a great line from a great movie. Natalie Portman’s character meets that of Zach Braff in the doctor’s waiting room in the amazing movie Garden State. She hands him her headphones and says, “You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life I swear…”

It is a movie with a great soundtrack. I imagine it being a soundtrack that Zach Braff chose to in the way that music can become a soundtrack to our lives.

Music has punctuated my life. One of my great regrets is not sticking with studying music. Instead, it has been my near constant companion.

Only about once a week, does it feel like a track or artist I am listening to is in harmony with my life!

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My movie list

My movie list

what’s your favourite movie…

That question has opened its way to friendships and relationships – or slammed it shut!

For a number of years I have tracked my movie watching history via IMDB. My ratings list includes 570 titles – you can see the full live list here.

Below is my list of movies I have scored 10 (the first 7 in the list) and then 9.

Ratings are personal – I rated moves that might be great – or just great to me.

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Photography to me

Photography to me

skill. moments. interpretation. expression.

How did photography enter your life?

For me, there were the family photos with an instamatic camera that my mom took. They ended up in family albums and in frames on walls as memories of moments, family,…

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