Category: Read me here
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My recent free-spree from social media had been going really well right up until yesterday when I tried to pat myself on the back for dealing with my Twitter addiction then realised I couldn’t because my hands were gripping my phone, facilitating my new addiction to YouTube. In my defence, can I bring your attention…
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Wotcha
If you like my soapbox moments or share my passions, grab a coffee or a gin and get comfy as you’ve happened upon my read me here update and it’d be great to have your comments along the way. Firstly, I’ve written as a guest blogger on The History Girls Frae Scotland recently. I…
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Of Mice and Men
Internalised misogyny’s kinda like the rat who lived in our back garden. Every now and then it poked its head out of a small hole in the dry stane dyke and scared the living shit out of me (but thrilled the dog). For soooooooo long I believed the rat was simply a large mouse. Then, faced with…
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Good Company
I’m proud to be a Dangerous Woman. The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh are asking what being a dangerous woman means and providing a myriad of answers, one per day, over the 365 days between International Women’s Day 2016 and International Women’s Day 2017. My piece, entitled The Business of Incantations is here.
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comme ci, comme ça
I put filters on photos all the time. Some folk think it’s cheating. Others couldn’t give a flying fuck. Others still say it’s about creating your own reality and that’s an everyday essential (and sometimes radical) act. I’ve realised it’s time to put filters on things I hear, too. I’ve realised there are times I’m…
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Privilege as a Parrot
Are you sitting uncomfortably? Good. Then I’ll begin. It’s like that at the moment, isn’t it? That is if you haven’t absented yourself completely from the news and are staying engaged by degrees, trying to figure out what to do to help the world. Sometimes, things feel hopeless. Sometimes again, you realise rock bottom’s a great…
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How to Trim Your Beard
I’m well chuffed to have another story in Scottish Product magazine this month. This time it’s about beards and breaking up and it’s getting quite a response on Twitter and Facebook. The story is set in Rhu Cafe in beautiful Arisaig, looking over to Eigg on the Scottish west coast. It’s 50:50 truth and fiction, so…
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A Woman’s Work
This year I’ve found my mojo with writing for a minimum of four days a week when the kids are at school. I have also, touch wood, learned the art of prioritising my work above the other things I can get involved with when at home. Thanks to affirming conversations with creative friends and Liz Gilbert’s…
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