Hello there. I’m Lou(ise), a creative artist living and working on the lands of the Turrbal people, in sunny south east Queensland, Australia. I am constantly passionate about words, music, stories, and the ways they work together.

Exploring the words of others is a never-ending source of fascination. I’m especially partial to speculative fiction (J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Pratchett are perennial faves) – and I do love me a good whodunnit (P.D. James & Deborah Crombie for the cuffs, Ben Aaronovitch and Richard Osman for the cackles).

My mind is continually churning with my own words. Sometimes I manage to pin them down, and some of them end up here for other word addicts to explore. Some of them flow into prayer and worship practises that are part of deconstructing and reconstructing my beliefs – the older I get, the more I know I don’t know, but I do know love is the most important thing.

Other fave fun things to do involve coffee, watching comedy, stitching, debating the meaning of life and fixing the world with my friends, and hanging out with my cat and my hubby. Travelling is high on my to do list as well 🙂

My name is Louise
and my friends call me Lou
(subscribe to the blog,
you can call me that too)

read on and discover
the word wrestlings here:
enjoy my attempts
to ensnare each idea

there's rhyming and prose words
there's silly and grave
there's all kinds of efforts 
to make words behave

and friend, as you read them
I hope you may see
a glimpse of the words 
who are writing in me