I’m Veronica Foale and this is where I write. I’ve maintained a personal blog since ‘07, but until now, I’d not been public about who I was exactly.

I live in Tasmania, with my two small children and my partner. I feel things too deeply, so I tend to shut off my emotions and refuse to think about it. My heart would bleed out otherwise.

Writing is a huge part of my life. Something inside of me screams that I need to be writing. That in order to feel it properly, I need to write about it. Rolling the words around on my tongue helps bleed out the emotions that I cannot otherwise deal with.  My fingers contain a life of their own and I work with them, my tools.

My grandmother died in June. She was a mainstay of my life, helping preserve my sanity when things were tough. I’m grieving for her still and writing about that grief often. I can’t bring myself to talk about her in real life without crying, so sometimes, I need to write it out.

I’m currently writing a book. Ha, I hear you think, isn’t every blogger writing a book? Well yes, probably. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to do it too. I think about my book often, but my procrastination gets the better of me and work is slow. I’ve written whole chapters inside my head.

Currently I maintain a personal blog, Sleepless Nights where I chronicle life with my small children, living with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and everything else that I’m working through. I also write about our journey with two rescued horses on Two Mares.

This blog is darker and not so funny. I like it that way.