The Journal

Friends That Break Your Heart

Friends That Break Your Heart

Payton Cowley

There’s a very specific kind of heartbreak that comes when a friend breaks your heart. It’s not loud like a breakup or dramatic like in the movies. It’s quiet. Weird....

Friends That Break Your Heart

Payton Cowley

There’s a very specific kind of heartbreak that comes when a friend breaks your heart. It’s not loud like a breakup or dramatic like in the movies. It’s quiet. Weird....

A Mum’s Mum

A Mum’s Mum

Payton Cowley

We've all heard the term a “girls girl”. You know, the saying we use to describe the girls who seem to have been born knowing how to braid hair, who...

A Mum’s Mum

Payton Cowley

We've all heard the term a “girls girl”. You know, the saying we use to describe the girls who seem to have been born knowing how to braid hair, who...

The Love Letters You Never Knew You Were Writing

The Love Letters You Never Knew You Were Writing

Payton Cowley

You don’t realise it at first, but motherhood is a constant stream of love letters. They’re not written with pen and paper. No, they’re crafted in moments so small, you...

The Love Letters You Never Knew You Were Writing

Payton Cowley

You don’t realise it at first, but motherhood is a constant stream of love letters. They’re not written with pen and paper. No, they’re crafted in moments so small, you...

Motherhood as a Second Childhood

Motherhood as a Second Childhood

Payton Cowley

Motherhood has this funny way of making you feel like a kid again. Suddenly, the world that once felt so routine and ordinary becomes magical. All because you’re seeing it...

Motherhood as a Second Childhood

Payton Cowley

Motherhood has this funny way of making you feel like a kid again. Suddenly, the world that once felt so routine and ordinary becomes magical. All because you’re seeing it...

One Last Breakfast With Nana

One Last Breakfast With Nana

Payton Cowley

If I could go back to one morning, it would be the one where Nana gathered us all into the car and made Papa drive us to the supermarket just...

One Last Breakfast With Nana

Payton Cowley

If I could go back to one morning, it would be the one where Nana gathered us all into the car and made Papa drive us to the supermarket just...

The Flowers You’re Already Growing

The Flowers You’re Already Growing

Payton Cowley

There’s a quiet kind of magic in watching something grow. You plant a seed, water it, and wait. At first, nothing happens. But underneath the surface, something is stirring, something...

The Flowers You’re Already Growing

Payton Cowley

There’s a quiet kind of magic in watching something grow. You plant a seed, water it, and wait. At first, nothing happens. But underneath the surface, something is stirring, something...