• TV Light Makes My Black Tea Blood Red

    There is a call to action. And then there is the complete paralysis of disbelief.


  • V is for Vexed So totally want to, like, stamp my foot, and, like, slam the door at the same time as want to, like, coolly raise my eyebrow, toss my head, you know, and, like, glide out or something? Confused, man, so totally, like, confused. Vexed is, I think, a teenage emotion. Not the…


  • U is for Upset U is a tough one to be positive about. All those un-s, uneasy, uncertain, unbalanced and such. ‘Not’ something. But Upset isn’t not. Well, it is, but it’s not. It’s positively negative, if you get my drift. I try not to get upset but I have no fight against the onslaught…


  • T is for Trepidation This feeling settles down on my mind and connects my fingertips with the keyboard, in a peculiar manner. The trembling wings of a butterfly as it alights on a flower. A feeling that shakes and shivers, a quiver that runs down the spine. No fear, yet no lack of it. No…


  • S is for Sanguine This is the time of the year for optimism. Spring. The season of rejuvenation. When the earth wakes up after days of darkness and cold. Those days of winter when Depression waits to enter the home and warm itself. My garden outside is waking up slowly. Crocuses crept up from beneath…