Category: personalanechdote

• A week of thoughts #2

  

  Strangers in the house and Gym culture (and clutching for straws)

  crushball

  May 12, 2022

  black, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, family, feelings, god, Grandma, lessons, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, untoldstories

  creativenonfiction, family, god, gym, gymculture, nonfiction, personalanechdote, thoughtcollections, untoldstories, work

• Being Tired Can Change Everything

  

  Youtube, good exhaustion, child Q, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe/Annosheh Ashoori

  crushball

  March 17, 2022

  black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, journalism, London, non-fiction, opinion, Racism, reflection, tired, untoldstories, untoldstories, work

  AnooshehAshoori, black, ChildQ, creativenonfiction, feelings, god, hope, London, NazaninZaghariRatcliffe, new, nonfiction, Personal, Racism, reflection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered, youtube

• The Evolution of a January

  

  Wailing about the self-destructive waterlogged first month of the year, and learning how to escape it

  crushball

  January 31, 2022

  acceptance, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, lessons, logic, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  acceptance, creativenonfiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, january, lessons, logic, newyear, nonfiction, opinion, perfection, reflection, resolutions, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

• Stories from the 2021

  

  I’m bloody tired

  crushball

  December 31, 2021

  acceptance, black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, lessons, newyear, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  2021, 2022, acceptance, black, Blackbrits, creativenonfiction, dreams, feelings, god, hope, lessons, life, newyear, newyearsresolutions, nonfiction, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, values

• A week of thoughts #1

  

  It feels awkward, suspicious to be someone of few opinions.

  crushball

  November 8, 2021

  anti-vaxxers, black, blackbritain, blackness, Coronavirus, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, fiction, non-fiction, opinion, passive, personalanechdote, reddit, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, untoldstories, work

  antivaxxers, black, Coronavirus, creativenonfiction, diary, feelings, nature, nonfiction, opinion, Personal, personalanechdote, thoughtcollections, thoughts, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories

• I’m rebranding Crush-ball

  

  Ever so slightly so that it barely matters

  crushball

  November 8, 2021

  blogintroduction, blogintroduction, creative non fiction, emotions, feelings, fiction, journalism, lessons, logic, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories, untoldstories

  blogintroduction, creativenonfiction, diary, journalism, new, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories

• Don’t forget…

  

  My Grandma has Dementia, but somehow that’s done nothing for my own memory.

  crushball

  September 27, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, Dementia, Disease, emotions, family, feelings, god, Grandma, Grandparents, lessons, livingwithgrandparents, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  adviceandcritic, creativenonfiction, Dementia, family, god, Memory, nonfiction, Personal, Promises, Religion, stories, thoughts, Trust

• Black People are Real People

  

  A fully alive, fully outstretched black person taking up as much space as they need is the most frightening black person, so be scary.

  crushball

  August 30, 2021

  advice, black, blackness, ElijahMcClain, feelings, lessons, non-fiction, Racism, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  advice, adviceandcritic, black, blackness, creativenonfiction, ElijahMcClain, feelings, institutionalracism, Multifaceted, nonfiction, Personal, Policebrutality, Racism, stories, thoughts, twoyears, unfiltered

• EU-ROPE-ING while Black: one story

  

  They just watched us get darker and darker, welcoming in the deeper glow, disgusted. But what could they do?

  crushball

  August 8, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creative non fiction, europe, god, lessons, London, mallorca, non-fiction, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection, travellingwhileblack, untoldstories

  black, blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creativenonfiction, europe, god, lessons, London, mallorca, nonfiction, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection

• Come Out Swinging: Boxing saves

  

  A long read on boxing’s saviour role in the lives of London’s young boys from inside a local youth boxing club, written months before the world lost its head

  crushball

  June 5, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, carshalton, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, non-fiction, Racism, sport, untoldstories, values, youth

  black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, features, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, nonfiction, Racism, untoldstories, values, youth