I wrote this 5 years ago, but as I’ve just had my first routine mammogram it seems like an appropriate day to resurface this. It’s come round again. That time of year when women post silly suggestive things as their Facebook status apparently to bewilder poor men and raise awareness of breast cancer. I did […]
I love my sense of smell
Really. I am guilty of taking my olfaction for granted. Of not paying any attention to the molecular miracle that happens with each inhalation. Of looking down my nose at the importance of matters retronasal. Until lately, that is. For the past few weeks, I have succumbed to the lurgy and been more clogged up […]
They never ask men how they’re going to juggle everything…
Women at work – what do we really want?
The more we talk about our experiences, the better. But it’s not always straightforward. My unease about writing freely about the menopause isn’t just that people will now focus on the woman who was once a person but is now just a sweaty bag of past-it symptoms. What bothers me is that the narrative about […]
Why #MeToo matters so much
Have you seen all the #MeToo posts? They are by women who are putting up their virtual hands to say that they’ve been sexually assaulted or harassed too, in response to the Weinstein scandal. Women like you and I. It’s important to show how wide-spread this is and how, until now, so many women dealt with […]