When does feminism cross the line? This is a debate that I see argued about on Twitter day in, day out, in yet another pitching of the age-old ‘us vs. them’ world we exist in. Personally, I don’t think we need to look that far to find the answer to this question. We simply need …
Ways To Stay Motivated As A Writer It’s the ultimate problem – you love to write, and yet the motivation doesn’t love you. I know this problem well. There are ways to get back on the horse though, even when it feels impossible, so I’ve put together a list of ways to stay on …
Years of study, months and weeks of practical training, countless minutes of memorising; everything she had crammed into her keen mind had all led up to this moment. For as long as she could remember, the notion of flight had fascinated her. Watching the planes take off at the airfield she lived near as a …
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The Writer The writer often hoped that her writing would not come off too autobiographical. She wanted to write, for the love of writing. And yet there’s no real way to keep the writing you create truly impersonal, she thought. Laughing internally at the use of ‘and’ after a full stop, she enjoyed testing …
The Voice He heard it that morning, louder than ever before. The voice. It loved to wake him in the middle of the night as he lay next to his wife, sleeping yet not quite sleeping. Sometimes he heard it when she spoke to him. Not saying anything in particular, and yet the mere …
Foundation The mask I wear sometimes more often than not of late. Slippery yet drying it clings to me like I cling to the idea of youth lingering on inside my sun-damaged face. Foundation is a base layer a building block for the other visual lies I present to the world or tell …
Glass How can something like glass be real? Fragile yet deadly the product of millions of grains of sand and yet entirely transparent. Ethereal yet made of human hand, quick to bite that which created it. Glass reveals all hides nothing until threatened. Put together it allows vision reinforces natural light helps us …
The White Dog What if the Black Dog had a sister? The White Dog, who knows no fear, no rage or madness, laughs entirely in the face of sadness. The White Dog runs, the Black Dog chases, she brings joy and light to our exhausted faces. What if the Black Dog had a sister? …
There are places in the world most of us dream of visiting. If you don’t have a travel wishlist, then I honestly don’t know what to tell you. There’s a world out there full of massive adventures – who wouldn’t want to explore that? That said, there are a few places that make me …
One of the greatest pressures I’m feeling lately is one I believe many women can relate to. At least I hope they can, otherwise, I’m basically more of a creep with selfish overthinking tendencies than I thought. Pressure is a normal part of life, but parenting pressure is something else. Like many other mothers navigating …
