I lost my Dad late last year. It was a shock at first but then I realised I had been waiting for this moment for six years, when he had a stroke. My Dad had the stroke when he was doing one of his daily walks in a local park…

This is the first story I have written in 2022. I was suffering from writer’s block/lack of inspiration earlier in the year. But now that I finally have COVID-19, I feel the need to write again. After escaping from COVID for almost two and a half years, I finally succumbed…

We’ve all had to find ways to get through 2020 and this year. Having survived six lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia, these are things that kept me going: Takeaway coffee on my morning walks Online shopping (in which I bought too many clothes) Cuddles with my cat Oscar Watching Netflix thrillers…

So I’m still in lockdown number six in Melbourne, Australia. I am feeling fatigued, bored and unstimulated. …

I was really hoping I would not have to go through another lockdown but the universe had other plans. Melbourne is now considered the lockdown capital of Australia and for good reason — we are now in our sixth lockdown and our second lockdown was for a whopping 112 days. …

It turns out my fourth lockdown was not my last. I am currently experiencing my fifth lockdown. It happened all so quickly. There was a spate of cases in Sydney and I almost felt smug, thinking that we Victorians would not be affected by this and could go back to…

As a new Melbournian, I have just emerged from another lockdown — this time it was two weeks long. You would think that after three lockdowns — especially a second lockdown that lasted for 112 days — that this short lockdown would have been easy for me. But it wasn’t…

I am a highly sensitive person (HSP) and consider myself quite emotionally intelligent. Unfortunately, many people in this world are not HSPs and are also not emotionally intelligent. This definitely makes life harder for HSPs who are delicate souls and tend to take things personally. Emotional intelligence: How is it…

Recently, Victorians in Australia underwent a third “circuit breaker” lockdown to contain another outbreak of the coronavirus. This time it was only five days. Last time, it was 112 days. I heard that the third lockdown was going ahead on a Friday, when I happened to be at the office…