My memoir manuscript about surviving a near-fatal attack by my mother as a child, growing up in a cult, and being catfished for 12 years by an online predator has just been longlisted for the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize.

Thank you to the team and judges at Hawkeye Publishing. It’s an honour to be one of the 24 authors on the longlist.

When life hands you trauma, you make Halloween costumes.

📸 Photo by my daughter Lara, budding photographer.

My husband told me AI isn’t smarter than me, it just has a longer attention span.

Can’t even argue with that.

I just dropped one of my teenage daughter's friends home after a movie and the first thing he said when he got in my car was, "Wow, a real manual car, I've never seen one before."

Now I feel old.

When someone builds an ad blocker for smart glasses, I just want the option to swap all the billboard ads for something better.

Today I only want to see waterfalls. Tomorrow? Puppies.