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When Life Breaks Your Creative Routine: A Week of Rubbish Photos and Real Life

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A photo fo the River Earn in Crieff Scotland.

Wednesday marked two weeks since my youngest daughter went back to the Philippines. Since October of last year, her well-being has dominated a huge part of my mind. We worried she showed signs of autism—there, I said it, I’m no longer skirting around it with vagueries like developmental concerns. That was our worry. The signs … Read more

I Thought I’d Always Go Back to the UK — But Life Had Other Plans

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A dry stone wall in the Yorkshire dales bathed in lat afternoon light.

Since leaving the UK in 2014, I always thought it was temporary. A few years abroad. Some travel. A bit of life experience before I did the “normal” things people like me are meant to do — get a job, buy a house, settle down somewhere predictable. That was the plan. Until my first daughter … Read more