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“It has been very interesting, clearly it spoke to their fear that the woman is only tolerating sex.”
A conversation about sex. Must we live with and expect the shadow side of sex in order to have it at all?
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How to be a gentleman rapist. An observational study by a woman (me).
The answer. Be rich, entitled and powerful. Equipment required: aggressive lawyers and pricey silk carpets for everything to be swept under
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How to be dope at NOT procrastinating
“The effort of procrastination is always worse than the task itself.” “The effort of procrastination is always worse than the task itself.” “The effort…
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CAN QUOTE PORN SAVE ME FROM PROCRASTINATION and THE CUPBOARD?
"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" is the prevaricators caveat among Blake's useful Proverbs of Hell. Is there anything in there that can…
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October 2024

All the hills. Longevity shills. And my love for a gory "clown show"
Cupboard evasion has sent me to Primrose Hill this week, where I spent two hours screaming at Demi Moore in The Substance and the rest of the time agog…
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A lock-in at the Broken Compass
A couple of weeks ago, Anna Zuccaro showed me one of the opening chapters to a novel she was writing about Dublin's nocturnal underbelly. She has let me…
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🌚❄️🍓🩺🫀🧠🫁
Pink cocaine turns up in UN reports, A list parties, celebrity scandal. But what's really concerning is that it's adding to polydrug use. As one doctor…
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Feel like a victim? Have you considered that perhaps you just Ain't Nice.
Forget fool with no insight. Maybe I Ain’t Nice with no insight. Put t'kettle on, here comes a big ol’ break up ramble and a bonus Pinterest board for…
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Liam Payne had received an adult ADHD diagnosis
Another lonely broken talent bites the dust. Stop rummaging through the ephemera in his wrecked hotel room and consider how his tragic death and ADHD…
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If the tip of your nose is cold then it is scientifically proven your first novel will be a bestseller
It isn't, that's a lie. But just put another jumper on as my Granny always said. No one can write in a overheated funk. The second post about life…
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This is going to be awkward, I thought. Eight strange women and me in the middle of nowhere for a week
Spoiler: it wasn't awkward, it was a tonic of inspiration leading a week's retreat on life writing with eight smart and gentle women. Here's the first…
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Cohabiting? Wake up sucker! There is no such thing as a common law marriage.
It doesn't matter if you have spent your entire life together or two weeks, in England and Wales if you are unmarried nor a civil partnership your legal…
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