Marriage and the Midlife Crisis
Last week it was my husband’s and my wedding anniversary. We celebrated with hugs and kind words and time spent […]
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Self-reflection
Seeing Myself in My Parents; Seeing My Parents in Myself
Sometime last year I took my daughter to a friend’s birthday party. As I stood in the café area of
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Our Cat, a Little Bird and Some Thoughts on ‘Persuasion’
A couple of weeks ago I had a total of 20 creative pieces ‘out there’ in submissions land. I was
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On Boundaries & Being a Minecraft Mum
Last year, when I finally got to bed on Christmas Eve I had the sudden realization that we had
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Anticipation, persistence and um… hairy legs
Although there were a couple of crappy things that happened in February – family illnesses and me managing to dent
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Limerence, and Are You Addicted to Love?
Limerence is defined as: (psychology) An involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to
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New Year’s Resolutions? No thanks. I’ll do ‘Sustainable Positive Habits’ Instead.
Oh dear, my title has given away all the exciting stuff I was going to explain. Never mind.
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An Intention and Meet Starry-You
To date I’ve not been one to declare an intention publicly (I’m more the quiet person in the background
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Publisher’s Bum and other Western World Woes
A Confession First, let’s get this out of the way: I’ve been a bit dishonest. I could have
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Running on “empty”
In the run up to our holiday I knew that I desperately needed a break; my publishing work
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The Poetess, The Outraged, and The Wild Woman
The other day I was genuinely discombobulated (and a bit upset) that a fairly well-known literary author (or should that
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Neoliberalism: the invisible monster
I had intended for this blog post to be about some books that I read recently and greatly appreciated, but
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