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Growing down 30 Mar 2013 | 12:51 pm
I've decided I want to grow down for a while. Not reduce my height grow down, but the grow down that is the opposite of grow up. I want to grow down and find all those fun and childish values that ge...
the sound of heaven 5 Mar 2013 | 01:14 am
Thre is no greater sound than the cacophony of childish giggles, yells and squeals. It is the sound of life living. But there is no sweeter sound than the seconds after they all run out the door........
My new mantra 15 Feb 2013 | 06:03 pm
I'm a 40-ish woman. I'm pretty confident that anyone reading this in that age bracket has gone through enough matras over the years to fill a self-help book. In my teens it was all about 'fit in, fit,...
degrees of separation 25 Jan 2013 | 02:48 am
I'm no longer special. And it's great! When I first had Daisy, I became her world. Literally. Like any parent. When hubby went off to Germany while I nurtured our new baby to be, Daisy and I lived in...
Closed minds 13 Jan 2013 | 05:15 pm
I've just walked through a riot. Ok, a riot in waiting. I always thought riots were moments of collective spontaneous combustion - a spark of anger / frustration / thuggery / protest - flared by a col...
Nameless 7 Jan 2013 | 05:32 pm
The girl on the bus. The girl with no name. In most cases, having no name takes away our dignity, but this time it gives some. Gang raped and abused on a Delhi bus, then thrown naked on the street ...
a headwreck 13 Dec 2012 | 04:15 pm
Do you ever have one of those weekends when the volume dial is just jammed on high? The dog barked continuously, the mini maelstrome that is Ruby moaned all day, the middle monkey over-tired cried at...
is is possible? 18 Nov 2012 | 04:49 pm
I don’t know if I’m jinxing things so I’ll whisper the words quietly, and write them in small font so they don’t get overhead by the gods of fate....by the laws of sod....by the ire of irony. But…. I...
little steps, big changes 20 Oct 2012 | 09:53 pm
Two years ago, I was horrified and harrowed by the awfulness of tending to the same needs from two people at the opposite ends of life - my mum and my newborn baby. In the months after my mum's strok...
and then reality bites... 16 Oct 2012 | 12:18 am
I love it when I write a post like my last one, as if suddenly the world has shifted on an axis and there are no troubles to be found. Because I should know by now, when you have three kids, a job, a...
