I started writing essays seriously in July 2004 after weathering a severe bout of food poisoning in Kenya. It was such a miserable experience that I was determined to salvage some good by at least getting a story out of it! Since then essaying has become a constant.

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A love that scares me Last week, right after my boss had asked me whether I’d be willing to go to Pakistan... love long distance It’s my birthday tomorrow, and I can tell you something I won’t be doing to celebrate - talking to my husband... in the beginning were the words after I sent out an essay in may about getting engaged... shock and awe in love I’d always wondered how someone is caught by surprise by a marriage proposal in this day and age... a taxi driver’s treatise on love it had finally stopped raining, although the pavements were still wet and the streets steaming... blue icicles in heathrow christmas is coming soon, i know this because of the blue icicles in heathrow airport... the art of thanksgiving what is it about being somewhere different that breeds the need to capture something we can carry with us when we leave?... alternate lives If you had seen the three of us yesterday morning sipping lattes around a small table adorned with blue and yellow... two years When I moved to LA my standard line was that I expected to be here about two years... spinsters abroad This morning the alarm on my mobile phone went off half an hour before my alarm was supposed to... blue, the colour of desire I’m sitting on a cold metal bench, reading, when he sits down beside me. He is tall, that’s the first thing I notice... where’s the fun in normal? Right up until i was 29 years 8 months and 14 days old I thought turning 30 was no big deal... the tired samaritans I expected to lose some weight on this trip, I thought grimly, kneeling on the cold cement floor of the dorm’s bathrooms... © Lisa McKay 2009 - All rights reserved Photographs - www.kevinmcphotograph.comhttp://magazine.nd.edu/news/14246love_long_distance.htmlbeginning.htmlshock_and_awe.htmltaxi_driver.htmlicicles_in_heathrow.htmlthe_art_of_thanksgiving.htmlalternate_lives.htmltwo_years.htmlspinsters_abroad.htmlblue.htmlwheres_the_fun_in_normal.htmlhttp://magazine.nd.edu/news/10290http://www.kevinmcphotograph.comshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13

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