Category: ~* Personal Essays *~

  • Another Important Piece Of Writing (IV)

    Welcome to “Another Important Piece of Writing” a weekly newsletter/life update/writing exercise/rant/potenially the next most important piece of literature from the 21st century but probably not. I am SICK again!/still! I got the flu after I kept forgetting to get my flu shot (even though it was FREE!) which then gorgeously transformed into a chest… Read more

  • Another Important Piece of Writing (III)

    Welcome to “Another Important Piece of Writing” a weekly newsletter/life update/writing exercise/rant/potenially the next most important piece of literature from the 21st century but probably not. Every couple of weeks I feel like I see another article about how some European country is trialling a 4 day work week, and then never hearing anything about… Read more

  • Another Important Piece of Writing (II)

    Welcome to “Another Important Piece of Writing” a weekly newsletter/life update/writing exercise/rant/potenially the next most important piece of literature from the 21st century but probably not. I have finally moved, unpacked and seemingly settled into my new place! I had to wait two days to get all the little things like plates and cutlery because… Read more

  • Another Important Piece of Writing (I)

    Welcome to a series I am calling “Another Important Piece of Writing” a monthly newsletter/life update/writing exercise/rant/potenially the next most important piece of literature from the 21st century but probably not. I am moving, AGAIN. I emphasise again because this is my 5th move in 4 years, and my 3rd in under 2. Whenever I… Read more

  • Drunk minds/Sober thoughts

    After 4 years of sobreity, I never thought one of the hardest things would be other people. I genuinely assumed it was just going to be a case of being around or finding myself in situations in which alcohol would be presented to me, and proceeding to say “Oh, no thank you” rinsing and repeating… Read more

  • Well, thanks!

    I often feel like I have more in common with a screaming petulant child, or a person walking down the street yelling about satan and his connection to potatoes, than I do to other people. That resonates with me – I get it. I, like the bellowing child, have so many things that I don’t… Read more

  • An Ode To Couch

    This morning I attempted to write at my brand new desk but was forced to move due to an unrelentingly lovely sunbeam hitting my desk. My eyes were squinting and I couldn’t see my screen clearly – the suns mission completed. I could tell all it wanted was to lure me out to bask within… Read more

  • COVID-19 & Me

    Welcome back to another installment of “Will The World End This Month?” Today we discuss how the novel coronavirus AKA COVID-19 has rocked the already crumbling, unliveable capitalist society in which we all rely!  Like most small businesses (actually, just businesses at this point) the place in which I was employed was inevitably affected by… Read more

  • A GP, a gynaecologist and a surgeon walk into my pussy…

    In what has been an unprecedented turn of events, the stars aligned in such a way that in the span of 4 days I had 3 appointments solely dedicated to the health and wellbeing of my vagina. In 96 hours I was subjected to 3 pelvic floor exams, 2 attempts at an IUD insertion and… Read more