Writing Archive

Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.

[a desk lamp, various ink bottles, a blade, an envelope enclosed with a ribbon and a penned letter].

  • A lack of summer

    That year and the one before but we just carried on digging daddy and me. We knew that someday the rain’d stop, roots wouldn’t get washed away and everything would grow. There were days…

  • letters never meaning to send

    writing these has not been easy writing letters never meaning to send has long been a mainstay of psychotherapy/counselling, the idea being to say things, write down what you would like to say, always…

  • the occasional mother

    Dear joyce my runaway occasional mother, which in itself is a too polite way of saying: a woman who abandoned her children twice, once when they were little more than babies & once when…

  • my sister from another mister

    mandy my sister from another mister I met you so few times in my life, the last time I believe you were in your middle teens & i was in my early twenties. you…

  • Harold

    Ah Harold, the last time I saw you was a summers day, I’d gone to my stepmother’s house to find the back door locked. you were there inside on the phone. you kind of…

  • A fine pair

    I’d been living with a hider and slider. She cheated, and believed that was ok as long as I didn’t find out, I wasn’t so sure, knowing that dirt can hide only for so…

  • Book 1 chapter 2

    Making Happiness your Intention Whatever we choose to focus on, becomes our lives; if you focus on feeling happy, you will feel happier. To focus on being happy needs you to do certain things,…

  • Joyce

    Dear Joyce, I’ve tried talking with you but have never yet got past the ‘me’ that you’ve heard from other people & so I feel you still think of me as that small child.…

  • John

    Dear John, You’ve been gone a long time now & while I tried to talk to you when you were here, I felt you closed that down at every opportunity. so this is one…