Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
What a hoot it was when a couple of young women gave up their bus seats for us. Sis and I were holidaying in Sydney, in fine fettle, and were amused to get the first indication that we were ‘old’. It’s not like we were delusional about our ages – we knew that we appeared …
Let’s be clear on how a pregnancy doesn’t happen: a woman’s eggs don’t invade a man’s testicles, take his sperm hostage, and fertilise themselves with their unwilling victims. Unless a man is the victim of a sexual assault by a woman, he freely ejaculates into her, and one of his sperm takes up residence in …
Continue reading Sperm Control – or, how to prevent abortion.
I have to admit that I’m very much liking the e-bike I have a loan of at the moment. Being of ‘wiser’ years now, accompanied by a distinct unwillingness to thrash myself into fitness anymore, this e-bike is proving to be rather a joy. Any day is a good day for biking, because I know …
So, the US couldn’t spare anyone to attend the Christchurch Call conference in Paris. Quelle horreur - the very thought of signing up for something that might actually be progressive! “Good idea,” they said diplomatically, “but just not our cuppa tea (sub-text: not really a good idea - it might take us forwards instead of …
Continue reading The USA has a Clever Plan to Combat Online Extremism: Tots and Pears.
We cackle together in cahoots at our joke. My sister and I have known each other for sixty-one years, and we can say the sort of stuff to each other that we can’t say to anyone else, and expect them to get it. I’m in Westport on the West Coast of the South Island, population …
Today, I “arsed off” my foot scooter. That’s what we say here, when the involuntary dive to the ground is spectacular. And spectacular it was. Not least because it was right near a busy intersection with a hundred-thousand-million spectators, which caused as much hurt to my pride as it did to my sixty-one-year-old body. Although …
Continue reading How to do a Really Unsuccessful Dive off a Foot Scooter
I feel sick. Our entire city feels sick. Our whole country feels sick. Sick for those who have been murdered, sick for their families and friends, and sick that we and our city have been defiled in this way. Fifty people (to date) were massacred on Friday 15th March in my home of Christchurch/Otautahi, New …
