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Ships that pass in the night

28 March 2019 0 comments

I recently went on a date with a (grown) man who offered me lurid details about his colonoscopy. While having a roast beef dinner. Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is what you sometimes must endure when you start looking for...

Category: Musings | Tags: Love, Me, Men, Sex, Women

Crazy me

07 March 2019 0 comments

  Call me crazy because I enjoy the thrill of the chase, seducing the deer caught in my blaze Call me crazy because fire leaps from me, propelling impulsive decisions with which you don't agree Call me crazy because I...

Category: Poems | Tags: Gender, Identity, Men, Women

An ode to my son – part 2

16 November 2018 0 comments

I went to an all-girls school. We had little awareness of the budding magic of our young bodies, we did not have boyfriends, a party was a sleepover with amateur manicures and gossip. We did not have any internet, our...

Category: Musings | Tags: Children, Identity, Love, Me, Motherhood, Women

An ode to my son – part 1

11 November 2018 0 comments

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You are the...

Category: Musings | Tags: Children, Identity, Love, Me, Motherhood, Women

Call to sacrifice

16 March 2018 0 comments

Go forth and bring peace to the world they told us Yours are the voices Your hearts will set things straight (as if in its crookedness we are falling off the planet, us unsung heroines) Every story you share will...

Category: Poems | Tags: Identity, Motherhood, Women

On Being

13 February 2018 0 comments

  No, please tell me what to wear tell me what I wear when I choose what I wear is wrong Tell me how to speak or explain what I speak in ways others understand, because you know, if I...

Category: Poems | Tags: Anger, Gender, Men, Women

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