The Week the Book Became Real

There are weeks that look ordinary from the outside and mean everything on the inside. This was one of them.

Today, my first e-book, If Humans Were Spaghetti, went live on Amazon. And I find myself sitting with that quietly — not with fanfare, but with a kind of soft disbelief that something that once lived only in my head now exists in the world.

It began, as many things do, in a season of waiting.

When I moved to Australia to be with my husband, I carried with me a background in HR and early childhood education, and a quiet hope that I would find my footing here. The job search was long. Visa matters needed sorting first. So in that in-between time, I turned to something I could do from where I was: I wrote.

My first LinkedIn piece, Just One More, got a response I did not expect. People felt it. That small encouragement was enough to keep going — and slowly, writing became less of a pastime and more of a purpose.

I wanted to write about the things that do not often make it into boardrooms or keynote slides. The small, ordinary moments in our daily lives that carry the weight of real wisdom, if we are willing to pause long enough to notice them. The kind of lessons that happen outside of conferences and talks — in queues, in kitchens, in the middle of unremarkable Tuesdays.

My husband was the one who said: try something of your own.

I hesitated. Starting something new in a new place, in a new chapter of life — it is not a small thing. But the thought stayed with me, gently and persistently, until one day a rather funny idea arrived: what if I wrote something to sell?

The title came to me almost as a joke. It was originally If Spaghetti Were Humans, but my editor rightly flipped it — If Humans Were Spaghetti made far more sense, and she was correct. Writing the book also became its own kind of mirror; I found myself reflecting on how much I recognise myself in that spaghetti — tangled, finding its shape, eventually coming together. I will leave the rest for the pages.

This Gratitude Friday, I am grateful for the waiting. For the in-between that gave me time to write. For a husband who saw something before I did. For a funny title that refused to leave me alone. And for every reader who pauses long enough to pick it up.

The book is now available on Amazon. If you are curious — and I hope you are — just click here.