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When The Doors Open

|Lia Kibble
Hi,  I thought I'd share something a little different today. In the midst of all the chaos recently I haven’t had much of a chance to write properly. This is...

Seasons Of Emotions In Parenting

|Lia Kibble
Hi. There are days when motherhood feels like joy layered on joy — and then there are days when it feels like every sound hits a little too hard, every...

From Love Stories to Crime Scenes

|Lia Kibble
Hi. For a long time, I believed my writing belonged in gentle places. In quiet kitchens. In slow mornings. In love stories that felt like safety after everything else had...

I Thought I Was Only a Romance Writer

|Lia Kibble
Hi. For the longest time, I thought I knew exactly who I was as a writer. Romance. Love stories. Soft endings. People finding each other after life had already taken...

When I'm Writing Lately

|Lia Kibble
Hi, I’ve been writing again. Not in the quiet, candle-lit, uninterrupted way I once imagined writing would look like — but in the middle of everything. In the in-between moments....

Cooking During Chaos

|Lia Kibble
Hi. There was a time when cooking felt like joy to me. Not a chore. Not another thing on the list. A way of breathing. I used to lose myself...

Vaccinations and Chickenpox

|Lia Kibble
Hi. Isla had the day off after her vaccinations — one of those slow days where nothing feels urgent, where you think you’re just giving them a little extra rest....

When Responsibility Keeps Piling

|Lia Kibble
Hi. Some changes in life arrive slowly. So slowly that you almost adjust without realising you’re adjusting at all. That’s what this has felt like with my father-in-law. We’d noticed...

Siblings Becoming Friends

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Hi. For a long time, our days felt like constant management. One baby. One toddler. Two very different needs pulling me in opposite directions. I spent so much time trying...

My Body VS Me

|Lia Kibble
Hi. Some days, the hardest part of my life isn’t motherhood, or work, or the endless lists I carry in my head. It’s my body. The body I wake up...