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writing
dear diary
I write in you every day. You listen but never criticise. You welcome each day with a fresh, crisp page and never turn your back on yesterday. You preserve my past and present; every wrinkle on your cover is a sign of our penmanship. The notion of writing something down, expressing our hopes and fears...
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I have just finished watching Road to Perdition. I’ve never seen it before but knew it to be a Tom Hanks film, which is reason enough to make me watch a film these days. Set during the Great Depression, it tells the story of Michael Sullivan Sr. (played by Hanks), an enforcer for the Irish...
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I often find myself wondering, did I give you your due; for all that you’ve done for me, for all that you continue to do. Did I ever just take the time to say thank you?As a child you walked ahead of me to lead by example, you were my guiding light through life, my...
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Famous for being the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare’s work spans the globe, earning his work the most performed of any other playwright. His own story however, laced with mystery and clouded by the time in which he lived has made him one of the most beloved figures of our time. He...
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I found a letter from my fifteen year old self the other day when reading through my old notebooks. Letters you write to your future self are cute and funny when from a young child; you can smile and shake your head at how silly your younger self was, even the spelling mistakes can evoke...
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When I tell people what I do for a living it is normally met with one of two reactions. Either they come over all dreamy and start waxing poetic about how whimsical it is that my business is in words or they question if being a writer is an actual job at all. I’m not...
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pregnant
This is quite a bittersweet post for me to write this week as it is going to be my last for Semple for a while. After blogging for Semple for over three years I am sad to be giving it up but am extremely excited about the next adventure ahead of me as I am about...
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pregnant
Dear Daughter, I was thinking about you today and what you might be like. See, you don’t even exist yet. For now you are but an idea – a beautiful idea that I will, god willing, one day have the chance to make a reality. I’ve written this in preparation of that moment and I did...
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I almost quit. I was so close to taking the easy way out, giving up and waving goodbye to a dream that I have tirelessly worked on for so long. I had enough, I was about to give it all up. At the beginning, when you decide on a goal and you plan your pursuit...
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India can be a hectic country to travel. Amazing, but hectic. So when it came time for us to call curtain on our time there we knew there was only one place we wanted to bid our farewells – and that place was Kerala. The backwaters of Kerala are not only a visual spectacle but...
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