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View ArticleLinks in the chain
What are you reading and writing? Here’s a few of the things I’ve found to be good reads lately. Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament Remember the protests...
View ArticleIntroducing The Crone
A new member of the team here at this blog. The Crone is in charge of comments. So I will no longer be reading any comments which she doesn’t permit through her wise and careful filter. Thanks, The...
View ArticleComing home to ourselves
Home. Other than Motherhood, is there a trope more gleefully exploited or summoned up in the hopes of selling us something from air freshener to rolling shutters? And yet how many of us are actually at...
View ArticleYou have to love.
A dear friend shared this with me. Superb! “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love....
View ArticleMy kitten is a zen master
My kitten is a zen master Holding him in my hands as he sleeps I shift about and lay him down. He opens his eyes, registers me moving Then sighs and falls straight back to sleep. He doesn’t think …...
View ArticleClive James
I read today in the newspaper that one of our famous expats, Clive James, is increasingly ill and close to death. He was fairly prominent in my childhood on tv and in the clever sparkling...
View ArticleWell Known Facts
A title suggested by a friend who calls me up now and then to let me know what she’s learnt about me reading something or other online, on tv, or in the newspaper. This woman knows me better than most...
View ArticleBullying: it’s in the eye of the beholder
I have found myself bemused by the recent coverage of a public Twitter stoush and the resulting, apparent, suicide attempt by the woman at the heart of it. While I am always leery of commenting on...
View ArticleHappy New year 2014
My New Year wish for you is that you may lose your head before your footing. May you find love in yourself and others. May you sparkle like stars and roll like ocean. May you breathe easy and dancer...
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