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Category Archives: Parenting Politics
Breaking the silence: Single Parenthood Three Years OnI wrote my first post about single parenthood three years ago. For whatever reason it is still the most read post onView full post » 
practicing in publicI often talk to people about the pressure for perfection. I experience it every day in the landscape of my own mind.View full post » 
Rainbows and Privilege“You can learn as much from your privilege as you can from your oppression, but only if you’re aware of itView full post » 
Single {and parenting}photo by the beautiful Emma Galloway A few months ago, when Bo was not yet three, we were driving back from the cityView full post » 
For Mercy. For All.The world can be a really scary place and the control the government has over the media circus is always cause forView full post » 
Not in my name.I never thought that my country’s leaders would be responsible for placing people in concentration camps everView full post » 
Nothing New: the first month.It’s been a month now. A month of buying nothing new. A month of no frivolous spending. A month of borrowing andView full post » 
You are not poor.If you are reading this, there is a pretty good chance that you are not poor. Some days you may feel poor. You may evenView full post » 
The best kind of education…One of the most uneducated and insulting things we as human beings can do is to take our privilege for granted. To getView full post » 
Urban foraging.I would love nothing more than to live in the country on a small farm where I have the space to grow as much of myView full post » 
To those we turn away.To those we turn away, I am just like you. We have the same heart and the same mind. We have the same fears and theView full post » 
Limitless.“You have brains in your head You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself in any direction you choose” ― Dr.View full post » 
Do what I say, not what I do…I’m absolutely gutted and horrified by Australia’s new anti-asylum seeker “policies,” itView full post » 
What we already know but still don’t believe…I don’t read women’s magazines very often. I certainly don’t buy them. Sometimes I flick through oneView full post » 
Fostering creativity: gendered toys and stereotypesThere is a lot of talk about how outdated gendered stereotypes are. I talk about it often. We all know that our littleView full post » 
The other woman.Infidelity. Some say it’s human nature, and I suppose they are right, in a way. Lust and hormones and all thatView full post » 
These are not womens issues.photograph taken near a jungle market in Borneo 2009 When I was doing my undergrad degree I was studying a doubleView full post » 
The Aesthetics of Maternity…Do you read “those” blogs? I do. You know the ones I mean. The BEAUTIFUL ones. Where every photo is styledView full post » 
Women and Babies…Making babies is a right of passage for a woman. In past lives we would have gathered together around the birth of aView full post » 
Breaking the silence: On being a single parent.My husband had an affair, but long before he did this he made choices that kept him away from us. Right from the veryView full post » 
Breaking the silence: On motherhood.When I think about the way that our society expects us to parent, I am surprised. Surprised that there aren’tView full post » 
Feminism is not a dirty word.I am a feminist. There I said it. Loud and proud. And I don’t know why you wouldn’t be. I know lots ofView full post » 
What are we so afraid of?In Australia last week, not far from where Bo and I are living right now, a young girl was given detention for huggingView full post » 
Don’t hate the haters… hate the game.In this past week I lost something that is (was) to me a safe place. Yes it may have been on the internet… andView full post » 
Open for transformation.Today I look in the mirror and this is what I see. I see age where before there was only youth. I see exhaustion andView full post » 
Controversies, compliments and giving praise…A few weeks ago Dr Peggy Drexler published on Huff Post a pretty controversial thought provoking piece on complimentsView full post » |
