Late last week, I had something of an epiphany. Epiphanies for me are quite small. They are things like, “the supermarket is just like an indoors version of the outside, but with biscuits, which you love” and “you are probably not going to fly off
Every year at about this time, I have this conversation with at least one person. ANNA: Happy New Year! PERSON: Oh, happy New Year! [pause] Oh no, I shouldn't have said that to you. I meant to say, try to have a happy year. ANNA: What? PERSON: You know, I hope it's not too
My brain is flooded with memories: things about the school lamb that left droppings all over my dad's car, and nanna's porch full of orb weaving spiders, and the time a couple of louts stole our lawnmower while we were on holiday. Here's a thing: I
You might already know from Twitter that about 35 years ago, my dad's dad took his own life. I don't know if dad is thinking about this more than usual, but we've talked about it twice in the past two days. 35 years ago, men
Hey kid, I came in to check on you tonight and you were still and warm under the blankets. I don't know if you know this, but your cheeks flush red when you're dreaming. Tonight I put my fingers on them and noticed how your skin
Five days ago, I entered a period of anxiety. I knew it immediately, by the way it crept around the bedroom door and snuggled in next to me. My anxiety. 'Hello,' I said. 'I was wondering when I might see you again.' and it smiled
For the past few weeks I have been trying a new therapy with my long-suffering psychologist. I've been seeing her since 2009, hoping she could pop my heart back into place, then looking for some direction in life, then having a mental breakdown, then just
Beware: triggers lurk here. I've never cried at a celebrity death. In fact, I've watched others do it with some disgust, like, Why are you making this about you? I've never read a celebrity's death notice and thought, here is something that affects me personally, me, this person
I had the great pleasure last night of seeing Tara Moss speak at an event Georgia's school had put on. And I'm having a lot of feelings now, so I hope you like sentences that mean nothing and go on forever. I've seen Ms Moss on the
We each comprise many things: we are people, first, and then perhaps we are people who stand in courtrooms or people who find gum behind chairs or people who carry children on their backs or people who stand in wind tunnels. Perhaps we are people
I almost didn't meet my boyfriend, on account of my mental illness. It was a down day, a blue day, the third day in a swag of no-shower days. I might have worn deodorant. Probably not. My sincere preference that day would have been to