Dangerous Old Woman
I’ve just been listening to a podcast about the Dangerous Old Woman on Sounds True By Clarissa Pinkola Estes (CPE).
CPE describes the Dangerous Old Woman as one who goes where she wants, says what she wants and will speak her mind. She is afraid of no-one, follows no rules, but listens to her own … Read more
Beautiful You (and the 2016 Pirelli Calendar)
I got to thinking about beauty and what makes people beautiful when I was reading about the 2016 Pirelli calendar.
Pirelli are famous for their calendars. Their calendars are of women. The 2015 calendar was awash with bondage type rubber, nipples, body oil and angular hips. Back in the 60s it was girls in … Read more
Women’s Rights
I went to watch ‘Suffragette’ this week whilst lovely man took one for the team and took the kids to see Hotel Transylvania 2 (apparently I own him big time!).
We all know about suffragettes don’t we? About how they chained themselves to railings and how one, Emily Davison (jailed 9 times and force fed … Read more
Labyrinth Life Lessons
This is a blog I wrote in my head in the summer, in Croatia, when the sun was hot and water was warm and there was loads of time for the kids to play without having to do homework after a long day at school (don’t get me started).
Just up the hill from where … Read more
Women and Divorce
I’m in the middle of writing my next book which is about how to make the best of the end of a relationship whether it is ending through divorce, separation or bereavement (they are more similar than you might think).
As you know, I’m divorced and I know lots of people who are also divorced. … Read more
Another year older…
I turned 47 this year. I can no longer kid myself that I’m only half way through my life…I’m on the home run now.
I’m minded of T S Eliot’s poem Little Gidding which is the last of the Four Quartets:
… Read moreWe shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
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