It may not have escaped your notice that you haven’t heard from me in a very long time. I’ve been cocooned in a period of transformation, and am about to rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes. For the past couple of years I’ve had a lot on my plate. My body Read more…
Good morning, morning pages! What am I to write on you today, to fill your endless lines of blue on white paper printed page? Is it to be a poem, prose; purple or just black on white? Am I to be creative or mundane? What issues lurk in the deep? Read more…
It’s time to put on make-up, it’s time for fishnet tights, it’s time to get things started for the Steampunk Show Tonight… So there I am, on a small, make-shift, plywood stage, covered in the yellow ochre dust of the desert. I’m in the Tankwa Karoo and I’m wearing a Read more…
Did you hear? Barbie’s going curvy, petite and multi-cultural. Mattel has realised the need to update the iconic, pneumatic, impossibly slender and long-legged doll for a new generation. What sort of message have they been sending until now? Apparently the diminutive All-American’s proportions were copied from a German predecessor called Read more…
As far as I know, it’s a natural part of the evolution of all women. Meno meaning month. Pause meaning stop. Our monthly periods stop. It’s been happening for millennia. Women from all cultures and backgrounds have gone through it just as they went through puberty and the start of Read more…