Lavinia Thompson
Lilacs and Thunderstorms: Springtime Depression
Sometimes I hide within bleakness. At least, that’s how it’s felt lately. Work stress. Financial hardship. Feeling stuck in various...
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Lavinia Thompson
Mar 27, 2022
UK Mother's Day: A Celebration of Heritage
Intergenerational trauma is a topic that has spanned a few of my posts lately between here and Medium. But today, Mother’s Day in the UK,...
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Lavinia Thompson
Mar 20, 2022
Musings: Mortality and Sunsets
A friend of mine lost her husband recently. A wonderful man. Kind, compassionate, funny. They’re both the types of people emitting loving...
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Lavinia Thompson
Mar 5, 2022
Let's Talk about Childfree Women in Fiction
Stop making every female character a mother Any other childfree women and writers who are tired of watching their favourite fictional...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 20, 2022
Rugs aren't permanent - neither is darkness.
An interview published in The Paris Review’s spring edition caused me to go into a state of reflection. Author Rachel Cusk discussed many...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 1, 2022
January Writing Prompts 1
Say Goodbye It intrigues me how it’s on the days we say goodbye that we remember the little things. I can still close my eyes and recall...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 2, 2021
Monthly Muse: Book Marketing Part 1: Author Websites
With the upcoming release of “Beyond Dark 1: Belladonna”, I have been immersed in book marketing research. The bane of authors....
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Lavinia Thompson
Oct 18, 2020
Let's Re-connect
This week’s post is dedicated to my friends in my writing group on Discord, the Night Owls. Thank you for being there and being a light...
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Lavinia Thompson
Aug 3, 2019
Musings ~ A Sign of Life
Eventually you have to be unafraid of yourself and who you’re becoming. To embrace the signs of life stirring within, showing that a...
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Lavinia Thompson
Mar 8, 2019
Musings: This is my Meadow
Sometimes I'm living my life in a rearview mirror. There are so many moments here and now I should be living for. Soaking in. Because...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 14, 2019
Remember to Love Yourself First
This is the first Valentine’s Day I have spent single in eight years. Eight. Years. This means I spent 80 per cent of my 20s in one...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 2, 2019
Sometimes I Give Good Advice...
Only sometimes. This is just going to be a random post, inspired by a conversation a couple weeks ago with my younger sister (formerly...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jul 24, 2018
Letter to Chester Bennington
Dear Chester; I’ll never tell him how much I cried that day. How, as he pulled out of the driveway and disappeared, I collapsed, a...
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Lavinia Thompson
May 10, 2018
Another year older...
Twenty-nine isn’t old. But on the odd rainy spring night when I get home from work, I sit back in my favourite orange chair with a...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 20, 2018
Pages Keep Turning
Pages keep turning. Every light of a cigarette. Every drop of vodka at the bottom of a glass. Slipping over ice precariously yet...
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Lavinia Thompson
Dec 28, 2017
Musings ~ Love Engrained
I found myself staring into something terrifying today. At the bottom of the barrel. Scraping the fragments of my dating pool on a free...
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Lavinia Thompson
Dec 16, 2017
Empty Speed
Outrunning memories, barreling down back roads, past Alberta fields barren. Speed; adrenaline; hammer down. Something endless ahead,...
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Lavinia Thompson
Nov 16, 2017
The Crumbling Pillar
Some things are simply meant to be. That doesn’t make it any easier to endure and let go. Some days are too long and some nights are too...
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Lavinia Thompson
Nov 9, 2017
Free the Butterfly
They call it “butterflies” when you fall in love for a reason. When it all ends, it is what gets released into the world to move on. Like...
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Lavinia Thompson
Sep 19, 2017
Pieces of Me, Repaired
Sometimes the pieces fall into place in a moment so minuscule, it passes right by. For me, it was a night so clear, the stars were...
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