At the tender age of 16, without even realising it, I was given my first taste of powerful feminist satire. Judy Syfers’ article (now Judy Brady) ‘Why I Want a Wife’ appeared in the first issue of Ms. Magazine launched in the summer of 1972. The essay is perhaps one of the best-remembered pieces from the […]
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Hope
What is hope? What is its purpose? Hope is a tiny dragonfly that flutters its way across the sky, darting from sun to shadow wishing its flight to go straight. Hope is something that breaks and swells like a wave in a storm. Sometimes you loose it completely and other times it crashes down on […]
Little Spiral
Sometimes getting back to reality is never the same. Nothing ever seems to be where you left it and nobody’s noticed. The world’s moved forward and you feel left behind. Caught up in a bubble, suspended in time, but now you’ve been popped; burst back into today. It takes a while to adjust and re-mould […]
First Contact
She was by all accounts the perfect stranger. Someone you could watch from a distance, unseen and unnoticed in your attraction and no one was ever the wiser. A perfect figure in the strobe light propped up against the bar, half empty alcopop in hand, chewing on her straw. Not quite the measure of sophistication […]
Some things never change… And some things do
Eight years ago I was introduced to a friend’s new squeeze. Little did I know that our new found friendship would outlast their relationship… and then some. Fast forward to 2014 and I couldn’t imagine life without my best friend. We’ve been through some stuff, both together and as individuals, but our friendship has endured. […]
So you’ve got a blog, now what!?
“The scariest moment is always just before you start” – Stephen King Never has the written word resounded more profoundly, but I guess the important thing is to do just that, start… The last few months have been somewhat bumpy. In fact, the last 18 of them have been a roller coaster of emotion that have […]