You are lucky, i’m half a bottle of red wine in and alone on a Friday night, and I’ve just started reading some rupi kaur poetry and I feel like I could do that, here it goes I thought you were loveI still think you […]
Author: Esther
Thoughts I Should Keep To Myself
Yes I am getting better at dating, by actually doing it. But god, it’s so confusing. I realise I have no idea what I’m looking for. Like yes, I want a guy who respects me, is a good fit and that I have chemistry with; […]
Trying Earnestly on Tinder
If you’re reading this you must really love me or have figured out the best way to Google me, because I’ve stopped linking to my blog on social media so that boys from tinder stop stalking it (it has happened, more than once). It’s just […]
A note about my daughter
A letter to my only daughter.
Hello!
I haven’t written in so long because my work got so busy late last year. I really do want to write more but I will try to make less promises to myself and then feel bad when I don’t make them. I know it’s only […]
Turning 30
I turned 30 last year. 10th of November if you all want to send belated presents and flowers. This is not what I thought 30 would look like. In fact, this is exactly what 10, 15 and 25 year old Esther had been dreading me […]
I’m now a single mother
In a major life update, I am now a single parent to a beautiful little girl. She is sweeter than sweet, my little Lychee! I’ve had her for about a week and man. #noregrets and everything but trying to get to know her and get […]
Does reiki work?
You know how in movies the single female always turns to self help books and woo woo stuff as they turn 30 and they don’t have a man, and the whole audience is supposed to mock her? She normally goes to a book store, finds […]
TikTok does not heal childhood trauma
Like a lot of Gen Z and millennials, I am absolutely addicted to social media. Oh yes, it makes me impulse buy things, compare myself to my friends and give me an in-depth knowledge of the conspiracy theory that the Hillsong Church arranged the marriage […]
10 affordable, tasty and nice places to eat in Auckland City
My ‘taste’ for food spots (what a pun) is the middle bit of a venn diagram where affordable, yummy and good atmosphere overlap. A lot of people have asked me what my favourite place is to eat or recommendations, but I always find it […]