Crocuses in the snow
Coming to terms with the reality of all different sorts of grief... by talking about it together.
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If magazines are dead, am I grieving? (opens the original)
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The In-Between: On Moving, Memory, and the grief of leaving London (opens the original)
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Hello! As regular readers may know, a lot of this Substack of late has been devoted to the grief of moving houses, the unsettling nature of that and finding who you are via new homes and new cities. Previous posts have included: I’m leaving the home of where I finally stopped trying to be a ‘good’ woman, the dust of who I used to be and the packing diaries.
The packing diaries (opens the original)
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Warning! The below isn’t edited, or curated. It’s just a stream of thoughts that I needed to get down, and out of my brain, in order to get on with filling up boxes. I thought about putting them behind a paywall but then I am giving my paid subscribers my worst writing, so that doesn’t add up! But please do consider becoming a paid subscriber, if only to rescue me from the Demons of Vinted. Crocuses in the snow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts
On womanhood, people pleasing and pain (opens the original)
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