Speaking up and speaking out.
A great crime is currently being perpetrated within New Zealand. The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is having a baby! In January of this year, she and her partner, Clarke Gayford, announced the news of their upcoming, and unexpected, parenthood - and the crowd went wild. Some were ecstatic and happy for them, as we generally …
Co-housing is on the rise. So are the robots. I’ve put in a request to the powers-that-be to ensure that each rises with the other. Technically, they’re both here already; however, I’m talking specifically for us future b’oldies. We want the security and fun of living in a supportive community of our own devising, and …
A boyfriend of mine once said that I was the most normal person he knew. The comment, halfway between bemusement and belittlement, was a bitter blow. I yearned to be a bit wild and edgy, but was afraid. It was unknown territory. Plus, most of the wild and edgy people I had known were usually …
It caught me by surprise when I realised that older people do have lives. As I progressed towards becoming a sad old person with no life, a doom that was almost impossible to think of in any good way in years gone by, things didn’t go according to plan. Instead, in many ways my life …
I am not amazing. I tried to be, but – alas - I failed. And, amazingly, I survived it. As a child of the New-Age movement, I recited all the affirmations that were going to re-jig my brain into believing that I was an amazing person if I just said them often enough. We baby …
When my sister was twenty six, she was attacked by a man with a knife. She escaped by her own determined feats of derring-do without physical harm, but the attack changed her future, and set it on a course marred by years of suppressed post-incident trauma. To all intents and purposes, she carried on with …
I’m leafing through a glossy mag in the waiting room, and glance at the picture of the couple, who appear to be around my age, in front of their designer house with the obligatory fabulous view. Technically, it’s what any sane person would give up an ovary or a testicle for. So, I wonder why …
