In a week filled with hate and horror and fear and anger and finger pointing, it is essential that each of us look for ways out of conflict

“Who did you hear that from and who is making money from that article / video / your fear?” Because someone is always profiting from this...

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2020 started off gloriously. I changed time zones, I woke up paradise, I listened to the sound of waves, I climbed rocks, I walked on...

It is such an easy little soundbite isn’t it? “Lose weight”. I wonder how many calories there are in soundbite.

I spent five months in plaster and broke six bones. I went back to college. I gave up dairy and healed my agonising periods. I officially...

A needle pierced your beautiful flesh scoring ink under your skin to commit your life to another woman.

If there’s one thing I have learnt, it’s that it is far easier to decline help than to ask for it. Show up with food. Collect photographs...

I just had one of those penny-drop moments, where the brick wall I have been pushing against just turned to glass. I have not shattered it.

Facebook is awash with Tricolour faces I have to squint to see, which feels darkly emblematic right now. This morning my mind started...

I feel like I am stealing from another woman in need. And why is that? Because I know there is just not enough for all...

“Did you get any nice presents?” I asked. “My cousin made me a bracelet” she said, pointing to jumble of loom bands proudly adorning her...

For the next time around. Welcome Autumn. I am ready for you now.

Don’t go on a demonstration against conflict and then come and bitch to me about how much you hate that bloke at work.

Happiness is not something to pursue, it’s something to be, to listen to and to act upon.

I’ve just had a miscarriage. It’s a real conversation stopper, I’ve found.

Two years ago today there was an earthquake in Japan which was so powerful is shifted the world on its' axis. And my mum died in my arms.

20 years ago a 13 year old kid was pushed down an alleyway in broad daylight in a busy shopping Saturday and had things forced upon her...

I signed up to Twitter a year ago today.

I thought maybe someone might want to hear that the one thing we can all hope to have to experience, might possibly not be just horrific...