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Statues: celebrate the changes

June 13, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

A statue tells several stories. One is its subject’s, one is of those who commissioned and created it, and one of how we understand and react to these other stories. Which is most important? Do I need to open this post with a statement about black lives mattering? Surely not… Some things are blindingly obvious, […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: blm, change, current affairs, feminism, homophobia, My Life, news, on my mind, racism, something happened in my world, statues, things I've learned

Distraction diaries – write what you know

June 1, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

Write what you know, they say… So I’m trying, simultaneously, to craft a poem about kindness – which I don’t always understand, a short story comparing women to tuning forks, and to empty my head onto the page. Only none of it’s working. Write what you know, they say… I’m too damn distracted. Can’t concentrate. […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: boys, busy weekend, creative writing, distraction, family, feminism, on my mind, Something happened in my life, writing

Coronavirus: Beware the free-time fallacy

March 31, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

Stay at home, they said. Save lives, they said. It’ll only be for a while, they said. Look on the bright side, they said. Think of all that time to do the things you’ve been putting off for years. Shakespeare, they said, wrote some good material while social distancing from bubonic plague, and as for […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, review, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: children, coronavirus, Covid 19, feminism, parenting, School, Sexism, time

Coronavirus: How does this make you feel?

March 28, 2020 By Ellen 2 Comments

Living in a time of contraditions Saturday morning and obviously, there’s no football, no yoga, no lovely long bike rides to cafes, no cinema, no supermarket shop, nothing doing out there except a brisk walk. Nope. And we know this. It sucks. We know this too. While I gaze out onto quiet, still and silent […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: coronavirus, Covid 19, emotions, feelings, feminism, in my life, isolation, mental health, My Life, School

On time: a post that gets dark quite quickly

January 26, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

I feel such a sense of loss when I think of the great, unwritten poems that took a backseat to polished floors – Brigid Schulte There’s an essay doing the rounds, it’s called A Woman’s Greatest Enemy? A Lack Of Time For Herself and it’s by Brigid Schulte. It took me days to find the […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: creative writing, feminism, humour, in my life, in the world, Maya Angelou, My Life, time, untold stories, women, writing

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