There is not another human experience that has escaped the attentions of the commercially-minded folk of the internet. Really – whatever it is – untidy cupboards, the inability to get off your sofa to do things or the need to detoxify something that was never toxic in the first place – there’s not just one […]
On fighting against age and other wastes of time
It doesn’t matter how much imagination or empathy you’ve got, sometimes it’s hard to know what something feels like til you’re doing it. What I’m doing these days is being nearly 50. (Less than a fortnight, since you ask.) From the advantage of youth, you’d have thought that 50 was the end of the […]
Going for a wee
Happy (ish) Mother’s Day
Proposing a Bechdel Test for journalism.
I still get cross thinking about it. The story in The Times about spectacularly successful and influential Helena Morrissey and how she copes with her nine children and the fact that her husband is of the ‘house’ persuasion. A successful person with quite a few children is happy to leave them in the care of […]