Amber G 6/3/26 Amber G 6/3/26

five for friday

I’m writing this at the end of my second week of full-time teaching, which has been – to be perfectly honest – an assault on both body and mind.

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back in the saddle

I don’t remember much about the surgery…

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writer’s block

I assumed I’d write a lot over the Christmas break. I’d planned to draft a personal essay to submit to a prestigious prize. I wanted to work on my memoir, really iron out the proposal. I thought I might start the academic article that’s been swirling like snow-globe particles in my brain for weeks, maybe months. Instead, I did anything else I could think of.

Amber G 9/1/26 Amber G 9/1/26

five for friday

After complaining about a dearth of decent films in 2025, I enjoyed every moment of The Roses, a contemporary adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel, The War of the Roses…

Amber G 31/12/25 Amber G 31/12/25

resolved

Do you make New Year’s resolutions?

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a few of my favourite things

Stuff I loved this year.

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panic! at the nail salon

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albums i have loved before

My eldest nephew is at an age where Lego doesn’t work as a gift anymore…

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on being/doing right

Things happen in bursts, people say – often, inexplicably, in groups of three. This is a group of only two so far, hardly a critical mass, but I can sense something larger brewing.

Amber G 1/12/25 Amber G 1/12/25

on clouds

We learnt about clouds in Grade 7.