Well. It turns out that the biggest ennemy of internet use is not employment, or parenthood, or the demands of marital emotional engagement and intimacy, but migraine headaches now starring in Your Howling Unresponsive To Panadol Agony on 5 days of the last 7. I have dozens half-written posts and comments, abandoned mid-sentence when the computer's ( Read more... )

When I think of rain I remember this ( Read more... )

Today was my first day back working for THE MAN after 11 months of maternity leave. I'm doing my old job, only in a new place (one closer to home, natch) so in some way it felt like starting over. Meeting everyone, introducing myself ( Read more... )

Looking back, I realise that I lived out my teenage years as though I had not received a vital memo, and that everybody knew something I didn't. That contributed a lot to my shyness and anxiety, my perpetual nagging sense of being out of place. (This sense was naturally reinforced by my peers in the world, on account of the fact that my clothing ( Read more... )

A few days ago, had he been alive, my father would have turned 60 years old. It is an odd thought - the image of him as a young, fit man is tattood firmly into my brain and I almost cannot imagine him aging. When I do think of him as older it's simply a visual process of adding grey hair, wrinkles, lines. It's harder to picture in any way how he ( Read more... )

My mother could well be an earth goddess judging from the amount of vegetable life that prospers on her balcony, my grandmother's flowers bloom extravagantly as soon as she looks at them, but these gifts lie dormant in my genes and I am the Anti-Gardener ( Read more... )

Yesterday some weird insane guy was hanging around in front of my office and heckling me, and I was talking about it with Z later, saying about feeling unsafe and scared and he’s suggested I carry my didgeridoo around for protection ( Read more... )

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I was mucking about on my beloved http://www.astro.com and looking at the short, free version of the forecast .It all seemed accurate, but the last part especially really made me catch my breath.

Saturn Conjunct Sun: Concentrating Energies 6 July 2005 until 21 July 2005: This influence can bring ( Read more... )

My first great romance was at the age of 15 with a man called Isaac who was very much not my boyfriend at the time. Isaac was not my first great love - that was a year later with a man called Alexander, who was also not my boyfriend- but he was my perfect fairy tale romantic hero ( Read more... )