Random views on this thing called Life, from having seen quite a lot of it.
It takes courage be an older woman in the world. Add being single to that, and one needs to take on the courage of a lioness. Singleness has its own rewards and pleasures, but our culture isn’t a particularly cosy place for single older women. Being staunch against that is no job for the average …
I was pinned down. “I’m not going to win this struggle,” I thought. “I’ll just have to let him do it.” B was a nice guy. Like all us humans, he was flawed and a bit of a dick in his own way, but nothing too serious. In fact, from memory, he seemed to have …
I’m pretty sure I know what’s wrong with the world. Like many of the best ideas that fly through the ether to settle on a worthy recipient, it came to me when I was lying on the couch in the sun. Here it is - there aren’t enough Grown-Ups in the world. But, if those …
I didn’t expect that I would find myself writing again on the subject of my ninety year old mother’s passing away. I thought that I covered all I needed to say on that in my previous piece. I had my flash of grief, and acknowledged that I missed mum - job done. But I find …
Mum has gone. It wasn’t unexpected - she was ninety years old. But it is unexpected how much I grieve her passing. The last eight years of looking after her and dad - he died four years ago - were so, so hard, that I thought I would only feel relief at finally being released …
Some time ago, during a bit of self-analysis - which is always a lottery about how well that will or won’t go - I concluded that one of my problems was that I got stuck with a high empathy index. Couple that with an over-developed sense of responsibility, and I was a sponge for other people’s problems, and …
Late Sunday morning – the ratbag tabby is in his usual curled up position of slumber in the corner of the couch on the fluffy cushion, which is somewhat flattened now by ‘occupational overuse syndrome’. I’m wasting time on Facebook, when I’d actually prefer to be doing something more constructive. Suddenly, violence breaks out next …
