Death in the Age of Technology
‘You are receiving this text message because you were in his contacts list on his phone and may not have been contacted by other means’. And so I heard of the passing of a work colleague from a work project I had […]
Talking Modern Life
Is Work Your Grind Or Your Play?
I’ve long hated the concept of ‘going to work’. The routine, the set hours and the horror of being told when it was acceptable to take a break, a holiday, didn’t ever sit well with me, even from an early age. As […]
Food For Thought – Knowing Where You Stand With Your Relationship To Food.
I once knew a woman who had a 120-pill-a-day addiction to Ford Pills. Yes, the type that make you have a poo. She was also into supposedly ‘natural’ things that made you poo, like grassy looking blocks of muck that you sectioned […]
Tech And The Human Condition – Where Do We Really Find Ourselves?
I remember when my father bought our first colour television. We lived in a hotel and a big boxing match was going to be aired on one of the three channels that existed in those days. The promise of a huge crowd, […]
The Risky Business of Middle Age
Yesterday an interview on the radio reminded me that young people were usually risk adverse. Bloody lucky them hey? All free and easy and posting magnificent and exciting stories on Snapchat, all while looking like a bunny rabbit. It immediately struck me […]
Don’t Make Google Your ‘Go To’ Practitioner
I personally love my social media. Facebook for keeping in touch with friends. Instagram to capture beautiful moments in my life and promote my arts, crafts and sewing. Pinterest to gain inspiration around all things creative, culinary and couture. A bit of […]
What Is This Plague Of Desirability In Young Women?
Instagram has strangely become like a soft porn site for the next generation of women. Pouts, looks of surprise, demure faces staring downwards, stretching sexily like no one is looking, doing cutesy jumps on the beach and looking like they don’t know […]
Saying Hello To Your New Adult Self
Seems that lots of my friends have had a crazy start to the year. Conversations about how weird the times are, how frenetic the energy is between people. That things have been tense and long held structures are now shaky and changing. […]
Quiet Lessons For The Next Generation
When I was small, the most important lesson I got was from my great-grandmother. I spent my days with her as a pre-school kid, bring mumps, measles and chicken-pox into her house, sleeping on her couch for my afternoon nap and watching […]
You Only Need One Resolution For 2018
The end of the year signals a tradition where we decide on a few resolutions which seek to improve our life coming into the next year. We laugh at how long we will be able to keep up the change; stick to […]
Let’s Talk About The Crass Automation of Love
I’ve never heard a really fantastic story about love found on a dating platform. But I have spent lots of time with my mouth agape listening to the horror stories of dating gone south with these types of apps at the centre […]
What Is The Algorithm Teaching Your Kids About Life?
It’s funny what can end up in your Facebook feed simply because you click onto one random thing that a friend of a friend liked and, voila, you find yourself with all this information about how to do something. In my case […]
For Every ‘Me Too’ There Is A Harvey Amongst The Silent
If you ask any woman, and leave her to think about it long enough, none of us are that surprised that an incredibly wealthy and powerful man in Hollywood has used his position to sexually assault and intimidate women to fulfil whatever […]
Lessons From A Clothes Line Post Holiday
I am three days returned from a two week holiday as I write this homage to the washing. No, I’m not some sort of freak. I don’t like ironing or putting it away into drawers but standing beneath a line, hanging out […]
A Little Aside Which Every Woman Should Know About
They say that money makes the world go around. But that said, money doesn’t necessarily bring happiness. My mother always said it was made flat to stack and yes, if it was all that easy, and flippant, us girls would be permanently on a […]
Keep The Peace By Avoiding The Drama
There are many roads to a peaceful life like taking up meditation to keep yourself in the now. The calming practice of yoga or walks in nature help to ground us in the now and push the pressures of the world into […]
The Perfect Timing Of The Return Of The Female Hero
I switched off long ago to the mass media and its soul sucking messages about what you should and shouldn’t be saying/teaching/showing your daughter. There are too many things out there which simply work to undermine our female self-esteem and courage like […]
Recognising And Renegotiating The Mental Load
I’m a week back from holidays in Fiji. Eight days with a long-time girlfriend spent in beach clubs, floating pontoons, swimming in crystal clear water, sail boats, champagne, great food and heaps of laughter. I have been stopped in the street and supermarket many […]
My Long Overdue Task Of Making Friends With My Body
The first warning sign was a change in my jeans size. I had basically been around the same size for the last fifteen years, sometimes up a little as well as down. What had changed was not around the butt or the […]
School Reunions, Nostalgia And No Idea
The jokes started through our small Facebook group. Was it really thirty years since we left school? Are we really that old? Who is going to go? Who else would be there? Our lives now, dispersed across states and countries, different responsibilities […]