It was time for my parents to find a suitable boy for me. It gave me exciting encounters, interesting revelations and a name for my Substack ac ...
Empowerment
‘I was her friend even before I was born.’ This thought raced in my young mind as my mother, and I crept silently to Lily’s mother’s ro ...
In between work and raising the kids, I tried to be a loving wife. My husband didn’t want me anymore. Late at night, I escaped into writing. ...
The Three Women in my Life: Lessons in Courage, Resilience, and Triumph “Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty b ...
…and learning from her. A meditation on love, loss and healing Minu Tai and I were given two vastly different lives to live. I’m not adding a phot ...
“My marriage crumbled. My health crumbled. I crumbled,” writes Sana Ally. A cat she had rejected shows her how to accept it all. Sticker i ...
“My breasts are, literally, the softer parts of me. As flaunt-worthy as the more culturally-celebrated stronger parts of me,” asserts writ ...
‘I wish I could do it. It needs so much strength and courage. I don’t have it’, stated a random stranger, admirably pointing at my shaved ...
Our husband and father, Brendon Gooneratne, passed away in 2021. He had had a fall on June 12th and was recovering in a hospital close to home, ...
The sofa smelled like toast. My head had been forced into its corner. The upholstery was frayed in this part, and I could see a tiny brown piec ...
