That time I wanted a bee tattooed on my boob
When I was 17, I hung out with a bunch of people who rode motorbikes and had tattoo parlours, as we called them back before they were art studios. One…
Le Questions to Ask Le Self
So I'm around the middle of my life right now (let's hope) and it's making me think of things done and things not done. I've added to my bucket list…
I’m a progressive wife, but…
I’m a progressive wife, even more so a progressive woman, but… I like to shop, and when I do, I prefer to do it without my husband, which makes me…
Friday roundup
Even though I work on Saturdays, it still feels like Friday is the end of the week. I work in our shop for half a day with Jeff and it's…
On Addiction
I originally wrote this in April 2015. I've revised it in light of Chris Cornell's suicide. Vale. ACT 1: When I was 17, I got drunk for the first time…
Cooking for Two on Mothers Day (An Ode)
On Mothers Day, I'm reminded of my childlessness, that I've never carried any number of children, that I bled for 8 days every 21 days for almost 30 years for…
I went a-hunting
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I want to become a minimalist (or: Why does my stuff mean so much to me?)
Recently, I watched Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things.(I think you can buy it on itunes or something, but in true minimalist style, I downloaded a torrent version then…
Letter to a friend
I've been abandoned, and I have abandoned. Here's the list: Bernadette Luvara - I left town with my parents when I was 10. We didn't have Facebook. Sorry. Nicolina Grimaldi…
Read a free ebook this week!
Would you like to some Australian/Italian coming-of-age fiction set in Victoria in the 1970s? My novel, "Floating Upstream", has been enrolled in the 2017 Smashwords "Read an Ebook" promotion, which…