Ordinary Days

Ordinary Days is a collection of reflections written from inside change. These pieces capture life as it continues, quietly and imperfectly, after the moment everything shifts. They are notes from the in between. From routines relearned, agency reclaimed in small ways, and the slow work of living with uncertainty. Nothing here is resolved. Everything here is real, ordinary, and still unfolding.

An Ordinary Day

Two to three years ago, I read Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales . In it, she explores what happens when life suddenly changes in an instant, through interviews with people who have lived through these moments, from natural disasters and acts of terrorism to accidents and personal trauma. She brings to light the psychology of fear, grief, and resilience. I remember turning the last page of that book and thinking: why don’t we talk about this enough? I gifted the book to someon

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Learning Ordinary Again

I am writing this entry from the pathology queue at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Level 2D. I promised myself I would write about how incredible this system is one day. But this moment in time is about my new routine. Just eighteen days ago, I spent four days in hospital. The days after that moment blurred together in ways I did not expect. Not dramatically. Not chaotically. Just densely. Phone calls, appointments, instructions, next steps, all arriving before I

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