Food Memories – Why Are They So Evocative?
What’s your earliest food memory? What triggers it to come up to the surface – is it a smell? A flavour? A texture? How does it make you feel? Does it envelope you in a warm, fuzzy haze of memory, whisking you back to a time and place long since gone? Or does it make […]
Poetic Problem Solving with Collage
Back in 2014 a friend reintroduced me to the joys of collage via the medium of vision pages. The premise is along the lines of a dreamboard,but using cut out words, not just images. This was an enlightening moment for me because, even though I’m a very visual thinker, vision boards had always left me […]
No, That’s Not How You Feel
The toe dipping version: I learnt that it isn’t fear that makes me avoid certain activities, it’s simply that the physical feelings they engender, make me feel unwell so I choose to avoid them. The deep dive: Ever since I can remember I’ve been hypersensitive to feeling. There have been too many people who, for […]
The Violet Earthquake – What African Violets Can Teach Us About Blossoming
African violets are a plant that will forever remind me of my grandmother-in-law. She always had them filling her windowsills, in various stages of propagation. When she died, almost 20 years ago, the only things we wanted of Nan’s were: A little red plastic foot stool that she used to reach up into her cupboards, […]
