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 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…
I don’t hate children
As one of the many involuntarily childless in the world, I just want to make it very clear that I am not childless because: I hate children; The baby bonus…
The Meaning of Life… A very long post
Not another (self-indulgent) Meaning of Life diatribe… For the better part of forty years, I have been searching for the Meaning of Life in one way or another. It all…
I’ve been busy
Because i have the theory that idle hands are the devil’s playthings and all that… here’s what I’ve been up to on my beautiful new (old) sewing machine that i…
A thing about families…
From The Age: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/its-time-to-enlarge-our-closed-family-circles-20090104-79t2.html It’s time to enlarge our closed family circles Brigid Delaney January 5, 2009 – 1:20AM FORGET wide brown land, forget the drought — when I returned…
A Final Word about Eggs and Pineapple
So Jazzy Jeff and I headed across to the beach on the long weekend. Just to chill out, give the puppies bad haircuts and carry them nimbly across rocks and…
A different kind of list – ***warning – gloomy blog ahead
Why didn’t the paper arrive at 6 like it’s supposed to? Why do I have to catch a bus this morning when I drove the car in for no reason…
How to Crack an Egg
Everyone has plenty of advice about how to get knocked up and how to stay that way, how to determine the sex of your seed, how to stop yourself from throwing…