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This Haiku Life #09: published 9 Sept, 2026. A newsletter about haiku, photography, another other noticing practices.

I’m really enjoying being back in my hometown, and Spring has definitely started to arrive. It’s been crazy warm this week! Not sure what happened to Winter? There were very few days when I really felt the cold, and it’s certainly not how I remember it being. Whatever happened to freezing my fingers off at…

Sorry for disappearing for 5 months! I completely underestimated how involved and stressful it is to move from one side of the world to the other! Add in a few months of travel, getting settled in again back in Australia, and just how unbelievably fast time flies by these days and, well … I’m here…

Sorry for missing a week last week. It turns out that moving from one side of the world to the other is quite an involved job – especially when trying to keep costs down! Field Notes One of the things I wanted to do before leaving Greenland was go for another dogsledding trip. I’ve been…

Aluu from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk 😀 Wasn’t sure I’d make it! We’d had perfectly still weather for the past month, but for the 3 days leading up to departure, there were strong winds and snow (finally) – not promising when flying out of a tiny airport with a big mountain right next to it on…

This week I started getting rid of non-essential stuff from my apartment. Trying to get the jump on selling everything before leaving Greenland at the end of March 😢 I am really, really going to miss this view! Field Notes Turns out, when you live in a very small town and the streets are all higgledy-piggledy, RBNXPLRNG…

This Haiku Life #03: published 11 Feb, 2026. A newsletter about haiku, photography, another other noticing practices.

We are still waiting for snow here in Greenland 😢 There have been a few overnight dustings, but nothing significant, and footing is still precarious as we navigate icy streets. Usually, dogsled season would be in full swing by now, and parts of the backcountry would echo with the roar of snowmobiles (I live in…