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Flash poetry: Cave life

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life. living.

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Flash poetry: lovers lens

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Flash poetry: So this just happened

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Letters baked in the mail

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Black ants and driftwood, when writing means life

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    It starts with the heart, how the world got it so wrong

    The yogi who is addicted to abusive relationships, the organic paleo chef who inhales cocaine after dark, the eco spa that offers Botox, the bankers whoContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    When social media confuses the dating game

    You’ll never guess the gender of this overheard conversation. When men obsess like women and vice versa .  It’s 10.00am on a Saturday. I’m sitting in aContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Beating the Colorado blues, what happens when you get home

    A tale of being still and finding joy while travelling round the world. It’s 4.00am and I’m battling the desire to fully awaken. My bodyContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    To all the pants I’ve loved too much before

    I have 31 days to fit into my ski pants. Not that I am counting. It is a familiar struggle that comes round every year.Continue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    A bubble room for one – the solace of grief

    I have just spent half an hour sobbing into a Sass & Bide t-shirt found on the floor of my car parked outside a ThomasContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    The lies I have told to get fed, and fed, and fed

    Food addicts are creative. I know because I have been (and may still be) one. The fear of having our gluttonous ways exposed can leadContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Walk, walk, walk the end of the relationship talk

    I am obsessed, obsessed I tell you, by the Let Them Walk video currently doing the social media rounds (I’ve posted it at the bottomContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Gratitude is contagious, in a really good way

    Did you know you can’t actually physically break the heart? It is the hardest working muscle of the body and can beat over three billionContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    19 seconds in Africa – when silence matters

    You can’t always get what you want when you travel. The unpredictable can go either way. The woman arrived on day two, though her genderContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Namaste me later, then namaste me again

    I live in a beachside suburb known as Avalon where you don’t say hello, please or thank you, you say namaste. No, I’m not inContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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