Dear Daughters and Sons – how to not become a hermit in a knitted beanie.
Dear Daughters and Sons, All my life I have been ’emotionally fluid’ you know – like waves, large ones that roll and crash about without direction. Its gotten worse as I’ve gotten older which is a bummer because I expected to grow wise and become able to control my emotions. Not just grow older. I […]
Dear Daughters and Sons on Day 2. To be Happy Put Your Head in the Sand
Dear Daughters, Sisters and Sons This is what I always do. In my mind I line up all the wonderful women I know, admire and love and then I focus on how far short I fall of them. This is not a good idea. But I’m not going to stop doing it, so instead what […]
Dear Sisters, on day 1. make your own happiness
Dear Sisters, I have not written for a long time. This is because I am a mess. When I was in my 30’s people in their 50s told me that your 50s is the best time of your life. For me this has not been true. When I look back, the best time of my […]
Dear Daughters – How to find a Guy your Mum will Like
Dear Daughters, Each morning before school I take my 17 year old to breakfast, to a funky little café opposite her school, called the Flying Monkey. Over toasties and tea, if I’m lucky, she forgets I’m her mother and I get to find out what is really going on in her life as opposed to […]
Dear Daughters – How to Ruin a Relationship
Dear Daughters, I’m going to tell you how to ruin a relationship because some of you seem not to know. Some of you seem to think equality will ruin a relationship between a man and a woman. This is not true – it won’t work for you. Its super easy to ruin a relationship. If […]
Dear Daughters Against Feminism – You’re right. Equality Sucks!
Dear Daughters @ http://yourfriendshouse.com/2014/women-are-standing-up-against-feminism-and-its-going-viral/ I’m so glad you believe you don’t need the feminist movement – the reason you believe you don’t need the feminist movement is -because hmmm lets see – oh yes – the feminist movement. I’m glad you weren’t a young women in the 70’s when I thought I might like to […]
Dear Daughters – About Grains of Truth
Dear Daughter’s, And so here is a Singlet that is for sale in Ice Design, Earlville, Cairns. Do I really need to say anything? It kinda speaks for itself. I did say something to my daughter. I said, ‘Don’t even think about it!’ Thankfully she said, ‘As. If!’ Who is the idiot who thinks this […]
Letters to Sons and Daughters – How to be a slut
Dear Sons and Daughters, I was driving down Mulgrave Road with both my teenagers in the back of the car munching on chips and drinking slushies. They were discussing the other students at the school. ‘What about Jenna,’ said my boy ‘OMG she is such a slut,’ said my daughter. ‘She’s the sluttiest slut […]
Letters to Daughters and Sons – True Lies
Dear Daughters and Sons, True Lies: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me – Ahh Bulls..t. Use sticks and stones to break me any day over Crushing, Heart Breaking, Words. Once a cheater always a cheater – Not true! My ex-husband cheated on me and I on him (with […]
Letters to my Daughters and Sons – Stuff I’ve stuffed up that you can do better
Like most mothers I want my kids (and all future generations) to be better, richer, healthier, happier and kinder than me and my generation. To do be happier than me – you must learn from my mistakes. Which you won’t do. Because if the generations of the world have anything in common it’s our resolute […]