Archive - Claire Spooner

August 2025

Introducing... my Ideal Father!

Silver Linings in Disappointment. (Clarifying comment: no parents were harmed in the writing or sharing of this post.)

Aug 28 •

A Sliding Doors Moment from 1995...

Have you ever looked back on a single decision – a left turn instead of right – and wondered how different your life might have been?

Aug 12 •

July 2025

The Illusion of Safety

I am in danger. (And so are you.) On living in permanent peril; global grief; and when words fail...

Jul 24 •

In freefall from Nirvana

It's all been downhill since 1992... A brief note on peaking too early and praise-paralysis.

Jul 9 •

June 2025

Madame Jekyll and Mrs Hyde

What's that sound? Only the loud WHOOSHING of my mood swinging wildly back UP!

Jun 26 •

Madcap Squawks vs Murmurations

Every afternoon this week the sky has been filled with hundreds of cockatoos, squawking maniacally in a madcap clamouring, turning our quiet…

Jun 12 •

May 2025

On Gratitude and Connection.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. No. I write this from my sick bed on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Yet so much within that short sentence feels…

May 22 •

The General Election and its Aftermath: a Purrfect result? Or a Catastrophe..?

(Oh, to have worked as a headline writer for The Sun...)

May 15 •

April 2025

Easter Down Under: Blessing, Renunciation, Heartbreak...

Spectacular landscapes, a whirlwind romance, bitter disappointment and a universal truth.

Apr 30 •

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