2024-03-08 13:06
. . . moving to Southern Europe has taught me, it’s that living in Northern Europe is garbage. Humans shouldn’t do it. They should just dig the whole dump up and let the be… Read More
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2024-02-19 05:31
As I age I wonder how the dementia is going to take me, if it does. The odds are there, if not terrific in either direction. When I get really tired my brain works less well, and that'… Read More
2024-01-10 08:46
First. I'd forgotten how soul-destroying paying rent is. No - I'd *never understood* how soul-destroying paying rent is. Because up until those four years in the Big Wupp, I had always been… Read More
2023-12-20 13:31
So if you just stay in one place long enough, you start seeing weird shit, right? Everything is Twin Peaks a few years under the surface. That's the thing that makes me most nervous ab… Read More
2023-10-12 07:08
As I reach an apex (I hope) in the amount of international travel I have to routinely do, I’ve realized a lot of my planning now orients around “will this itinerary allow m… Read More
2023-07-17 14:02
So, she asked, my 87-year-old aunt, the one who all the other aunts and uncles called silly. Why did the baby die? She asked of my cousin's baby, who had indeed died. Was the mother to… Read More
2023-05-27 06:58
There's a sort of conspiracy out there, I think, to present life-changingly important, huge things as boring so that people won't know about them and won't change their lives, and keep payin… Read More
2023-05-24 03:57
There are five extraordinarily difficult and high-stake things happening right now which would each in themselves be enough to make me feel put upon, and that's on top of the normal work of… Read More
2023-05-22 17:28
All of my problems are rich white woman problemsthey still give me hives Read More
2023-02-05 14:53
Today, at the end of a week of staycation - enough of it in the F-word's studio to convince me that what I already thought was a Good Idea should be a Family Business - as I walked my… Read More
2022-12-23 14:59
So it's taken me until middle age and a really inconvenient number of countries of residence to fully appreciate I don't just or even primarily like moving to new places; I like leavin… Read More
2019-09-20 11:14
I guess this blog is inching towards being defunct. But it isn’t yet. Now that life is regaining some sort of shape after a particularly, acutely crazy year, I am wondering how that is… Read More
2019-03-11 08:29
I'm starting to suspect I have no inner life. Not in the way that I used to. My brain is just not being what it was; it's like my imagination has lost its attention span, or like some sort o… Read More
2018-07-02 11:19
So between running, breastfeeding, three weeks of Asian meal portions, being sick, biking, and not actually putting on all that much weight when I was pregnant with the Monkey King, I'm actu… Read More
2018-06-08 03:41
I’m still here . . . Are you? If not I can’t blame you. It’s been hard to keep my head, or rather my typing fingers, above the water as work gets busier, children get more… Read More
2018-03-16 10:16
Wouldn't it be amazing if Death and Loss lived up to their reputations for being crucibles that, for all their horrors, saw us burn away our petty dislikes and our long-cherished sell-by-dat… Read More
2017-12-05 10:44
Yeah, I'm one of those bloggers who don't really blog now. Oh well. Don't have a moment to scratch myself these days, as the kids don't say. But it's quite a learning time. Here are things I… Read More
2017-10-16 12:02
Just got back from a two week trip to Canada, where I had some business. The business was concluded to my satisfaction, but it was a devastatingly sad trip, having a front-row seat to one of… Read More
2017-09-25 10:34
Mum told me once, when I was safely out of childhood enough to not take it personally but still too flip and dumb to think through the horror of it, that when she was a young mother, with th… Read More
2017-08-21 05:09
I've been relieved this week that we came back to Germany via the US, especially as we were there during That Week when the gloves came off after never being convincingly on. A man who built… Read More
2017-08-17 08:06
We've just finished rendezvousing with (rendezvouing? No idea how to conjugate that. Meeting up with. There you go) some family in New Mexico after a visit to Canada, and it was a fascinatin… Read More
2017-06-09 09:08
That is all. Read More
2017-06-08 13:08
A couple of weeks ago, after a friend back in Oz sent me a packet of Tim Tams, I started a research project into what other shitty-but-irresistible industrial confectionary is suitable for t… Read More
2017-03-28 10:26
I can't believe how fast time is moving with the Monkey King's babyhood as compared to Godzilla's. His was languorous almost - in a nice way - and the Monkey King's is speeding by. I can gue… Read More
2017-03-14 12:17
Using that fucking beast of a cargo bike daily has given me some weird Greek mythology monster body, whereby I have the flapping belly of a woman who gave birth three months ago perched on t… Read More
2017-02-23 15:52
I read a comment years ago somewhere or other, somewhere I haven't been able to find again, by somebody's son who happened to be Jewish - that's all I remember about him - that Jewish sons a… Read More
2017-02-01 12:45
I'm fine. I am more than fine. I'm the mother to the hairy little Monkey King as well as Godzilla. I am the mother of a brood.Well, two isn't really a brood, but you know, it's totally diffe… Read More
2016-11-11 13:03
There are some male artists who, as a woman and a feminist, I love. Not because of any feminist championing or thinking they've done or feminist content to their work. I don't fangirl; I spe… Read More
2016-11-10 18:38
We don't fucking want you.Stay home and put out your fucking trash fire. We have enough problems in Canada without importing you and yours, including the integration of more Syrian refugees… Read More
2016-10-19 20:21
A person who's very close to me and who I love very much and who had been trying very, very hard to have a baby for many years just miscarried. She had made it to where I made it last year… Read More
2016-10-04 08:47
Carmen had a generic haircut. If you live in a place where the hairdressers have any nous at all you've seen it many times - perhaps many times today. A short, slanted bob; sharpish edges ar… Read More
2016-09-28 07:44
Obviously, miscarrying last year was awful. With this pregnancy, I've been wondering from time to time if the universe is trying to reassure me that things will be like they were with Godzil… Read More
2016-09-13 08:07
To hark back to something a cousin-by questionable-marriage said to us several years back, F-word and I indeed spent a good chunk of our lives looking for the Promised Land, and we didn't fi… Read More
2016-09-07 07:55
So I'm about 53 years late to this question but "Please Please Me" is totally about oral sex reciprocity, right? All these questions, answers lost to history, mouldering eventually in arts p… Read More
2016-08-30 07:08
I needed a tax receipt from Lufthansa for a business trip I made to China last year, so I called them up and asked for one. My son, who was two at the time, came with me as he was still brea… Read More
2016-08-19 10:42
I always have stood up for more social attention to families - better access to better childcare, better parental leave - but because of the circumstances of my own charmed, work-from-home-w… Read More
2016-08-14 20:21
Is this an age thing? I guess, but it feels weird how cancer has got to be like this fuckup but inevitable family member that I'm always having to think about and ask about. My father is doi… Read More
2016-08-03 14:00
Back in Jolly Deutschland. The fetus, which hit the age of viability sometime while the plane was over the Atlantic, celebrated by kicking the shit out of me while I let Godzilla use me as a… Read More
2016-07-12 13:52
I am not responsible, and will not pretend to be, try to be, or allow myself to feel to be responsible for the idiocy or duplicity of my elders.I am not responsible, and will not pretend to… Read More
2016-07-06 20:04
I'm having a hard time not blaming the British working class for what has happened there with the vote, even though it's effectively victim-blaming as they'll be the ones most screwed by it… Read More
2016-06-25 23:09
Big week, in Shanghai and now Tokyo.It's the first time I've been away from Godzilla and I was wondering what to expect there. It turns out that I was dreadfully sad to leave him and then pr… Read More
2016-06-03 08:48
I feel good about it, because it took a year and a half, but finally the Conversation was had the other night."F-word?""Yes?""Have you noticed . . . how ugly German children are?""It's not j… Read More
2016-05-11 20:51
I went to see my gynecologist this afternoon, and given this was around, by our estimates, 11 weeks - which is the age where the last fetus died - I was feeling odd in the lead-up. Nerves, I… Read More
2016-04-26 07:58
Oh goodness, you guys, I can't stop watching this: I wasn't a Prince fan, by any stretch of the imagination. He was just another musician I was aware was really talented in a way tha… Read More
2016-03-21 15:18
"What number is that?" he asked, as we walked down the road and he indicated a street number."It's a three.""What's a three?""It's the number after two and before four. One, two, three, four… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
German classes are going well. It's really gratifying how quickly I feel like I'm picking things up, for which I should thank Chinese for being so slow and difficult to pick up. In compariso… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Well, I'm procrastinating here. Our Italian babysitter is, strictly speaking, hours I don't need to get my job done. They sure as hell help, especially at the end of the quarter when I get b… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
We are managing parenthood, largely by hiring people to help. 14 hours a week of babysitting. It's not terrifically cheap at this point - probably a little more expensive than daycare, after… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I know there's been some pretty heavy mummy-blogging with all the potty this week so let's have an old-fashioned bitch of a travel blog sort of thing:1. The three of us are heading to Thaila… Read More
2016-03-16 21:13
Went into the old town for dinner with parents (who are visiting), man and boy this evening, and the boy wanted to try on some merino wrist warmers I bought myself in New Zealand with dear f… Read More
2016-01-23 18:12
My father, cancer, he has it.I'm not very worried about the cancer itself (except OF COURSE I'm fucking worried) because it was caught very early, and it's a very common, treatable, slow-gro… Read More
2016-01-18 12:55
Well . . . how are you doing this week? I'm in the middle of some questions of myself, and creativity, and mortality, and things . . . but they are not bad. I know it doesn't sound frightful… Read More
2016-01-12 11:13
People who are smarter and more emotionally experienced than me have warned me that I need to be ready, after losing the baby, to pick up on signs of PTSD. I wanted to scoff, but choked back… Read More
2016-01-10 16:06
We spent the last two weeks in Venice. I guess on several levels I'm glad to be back (electric toothbrush! Lovely kitchen! Dirt, trees, grass and birds besides pigeons!) but on a few others… Read More
2015-12-20 15:14
So, thanks to the Economist and the books it reviews, shortly before the miscarriage I was introduced to this, which looks like this:And this book about it was reviewed in the Economist.Dire… Read More
2015-12-10 08:11
The baby is gone. It died last week, without me having any idea, with no change at all for me, except me suddenly feeling less shitty and first trimestery. This is - would be? - the tail end… Read More
2015-12-08 11:45
Well, the first day we visited Paris, on our way to the apartment we'd rented, a young fella in the RER who was getting out at the same stop as us opened the door and then waited for me - en… Read More
2015-11-17 11:34
Oh FUCK ME, am I sick of pre-natal yoga. First of all, I fucking hate yoga. HATE IT. It is a bullshit industry, a naive person's Pilates, monetized cultural appropriation and appropriated fr… Read More
2015-11-15 20:31
Well, now, everybody has turned tricolour on Facebook and gives all sorts of fucks about dead people because they're in Paris, and not Lebanon, or Iraq, or Myanmar, or under a fuckton of mud… Read More
2015-11-13 11:45
The oven is full and has been fired up.So last time I got pregnant was pretty easy to localize in time because we had just started trying to get me pregnant, like, the day before my mum had… Read More
2015-09-24 09:13
So the citizenship ceremony was happily in Berlin, and not back in Australia; I wouldn't have been looking forward to making that trip in the five days or so I would have been able to spare… Read More
2015-09-21 07:54
I''m officially Australian now. I think I may have written before about my mixed emotions over becoming one, but the longer I'm out of Australia and the more my exposure to Australians is li… Read More
2015-08-27 05:28
After five weeks back in Canada it's almost obscenely nice to be back home, and to feel like I have come back home. It's a first, actually. Going back to Australia from Canada always felt li… Read More
2015-07-15 09:32
I was wondering how the flies would get in my ointment. As a basically dissatisfied person, I wondered, what will I find to be dissatisfied about here? The weather is actually enjoyable afte… Read More
2015-07-10 07:32
When we bought our house in L_____, back in Aussieland, it was in a very sweet neighbourhood. A sort of oasis of old-fashion Australianness, where neighbours still made eye contact and chit… Read More
2015-06-30 08:03
Hah hah. After all the interest on the mortgage, expenses, renovations and repairs we netted a whopping $1,000 renting out our house this year. Fucking. Property. BARONS. I'm gonna go buy me… Read More
2015-06-26 12:07
It is really awesome here, which is why I haven't written anything here for awhile. I kind of love it. It's only been - what - four months? - but if you have read this you know me well enoug… Read More
2015-05-06 13:59
I suspect family problems are self-perpetuating. (Look at the fucking wealth of privilege in that sentence! Shows you how many family problems I've had . . . ) I suspect when people are at a… Read More
2015-04-12 12:58
Well, Germany is not Belgium. Things have been much easier here than there so far, despite the relative language handicap I've got relative to Brussels. Most everything that doesn't involve… Read More
2015-03-06 04:21
I've lived, in the sense of had long-term rental contracts, in six countries, all with their own way of doing real estate, and I can say one thing without doubt; if you would like to meet a… Read More
2015-03-04 09:41
First of all, readers, if you haven't given me up for dead: some news. I'm in love with Cologne. Our second day here was the local Carnival parade, and we got pelted with bagfuls of ca… Read More
2015-02-14 10:25
Now that the day is here, it . . . nah, it still feels like it took forever to come.Probably because we were in Shepparton for the last week of our time in Australia and things came to a hea… Read More
2014-12-30 04:22
Oh, thank heavens that I've now wrapped up what is quite likely to be the last Christmas I'll ever spend in the fucking Antipodes. What a bunch of bullshit it is here. And no, it's not the w… Read More
2014-12-10 05:39
My Oz citizenship has been approved. Read More
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