Days Like This
What if someone finds out that, actually, I don't have the first idea how to run a business (when I really ought to by now) and I hardly ever worry about the future (how irresponsible at nearly 30) and...
View ArticleSweet Jesus! I’m a Mother!
Good lord, motherhood is a shock. In fact, I look at the word "shock" and feel like it simply isn't big enough for what I felt in the days after the birth. I honestly believed - and it seems laughably...
View ArticleSo I’ve Finished Breastfeeding
The day has arrived...not so much with the flashbang (and perhaps a trip to the pub) that I imagined, but with the quiet closing of the door on a chapter of my life that has defined me - and my...
View ArticleOn Having Hair
"Sweet Jesus Christ on a bicycle," I don't exclaim, "Whose hairy beast of a child is this?! Surely she can't be related to me, a woman with hair so enormous and bird's-nesty that it has it's own...
View ArticleAwakening
Something has happened to me in the past year. I am, all of a sudden, overwhelmed by the sheer breadth and depth of deception in the world... Continue reading →
View Article10 Things Nobody Tells You About Parenthood and Children
10 things People Never Tell You about parenthood. Don't say I didn't warn you... Continue reading →
View ArticleSomething Else: A Better Quality of Introspection
Perhaps we don't need to escape from the voice in our heads at all. Perhaps if we listened more to what it had to say, properly evaluated whether we can take anything useful from it and acted...
View ArticleTurns Out I Do Like Parenting
For a long time, I have been harbouring the dark thought that maybe I Just Don't Like Parenting. There, I said it. Obviously, I'm only leaping out of the... Continue reading →
View ArticleRainy Day Recipe: How To Make Perfect Play Dough
Anyone who has spent more than fifteen minutes stuck in the house with a toddler on a rainy day will know that play dough is the way forward. The stuff you buy in the shops is usually ages three and...
View ArticleReturn to Oz
"I think I'd like to make today's session my last." Quiet words. Too small for how huge I feel inside. I have a moment of panic, where I imagine my therapist falls off his chair laughing and tells me...
View ArticleA Study in Self Pity
I want to be philosophical. I want to be able to smile and say, “I’m getting help. There’s no shame in that. Shit happens.” But at the moment, I just want to go outside and howl at the sky at the...
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