The love of my life…

This afternoon, as I walked through Notting Hill, coat bundled around my waist, hot coffee warming both my palms and endless leaves crunching under my feet, I realised I’m in love. Head over heels, beyond possible obsessed love.  Over the past twenty years in London, I have listened to endless love songs, as I walked across fog filled bridges, over…
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It may not be the baby bag I had always hoped I …

I was thinking the other day about pregnant women and hospital bags. Random, but stick with me on this.  In this lifetime, I haven’t been pregnant. I haven’t been a mother. I haven’t carried a hospital bag nor have I carried a diaper bag or any of the very many bags that mothers carry over the course of their child’s…
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Death in the Time of Covid: A Show of Community in a …

It seems to me that a great deal of stories being told at the moment, by the press, are words of doom and gloom. We’re being given numbers, of new Covid cases, deaths, vaccinated, percentage points of vaccine working or not working. We’re being given dates, of shops opening, restaurants taking reservations and potential travel allowance. We’re being told our…
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“I’m sorry”… I seem to be saying that a lot lately

It’s been about two weeks since I’ve written here. That’s a record of sorts. Radio silence on the website is something I’ve tried to avoid. But, these past two weeks haven’t been easy. Heck, who is it easy for at the present date? Honestly! Well, apart from all the kids in Miami that seem to be living life like it’s…
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Size is just a number… style is a state of mind!

I can tell you the exact moment I felt shame from that tiny label in the back of my clothes, down to the second. I was at the mall, with my mother, and I was about 12 years old. We were shopping for trousers and we were in the brightly lit fitting rooms of The Gap. Around me hung pictures…
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