Monthly Archives: February 2012

post script…

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Any artistic endeavour requires vast amounts of courage – which is why I have an abiding respect for theatre makers. And one of the reasons I struggled to pen the Owl review. I got my former Good Girl panties in … Continue reading →

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night, Owl…

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Night. A battered armchair seeps stuffing onto the stark, scuffed stage and sets a bleak scene. Subtle use of light narrows the focus on a lone figure, 10 year old Olivia, as she embarks upon a journey: innocence, lost. Man, … Continue reading →

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RIP: the Good Girl…

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

One disastrous liaison too many, I realize I may have a bit of an issue with boundaries. Yeah, who’d have guessed? (Say anything - I kill you). Comes standard: lock, stock and two smoking ovaries with playing the proverbial good girl as … Continue reading →

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two cures…

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

When the gypsy parade started last year, it came at an inopportune time and I ended up staying with a kindly stranger, a friend of a friend who understood what it feels like to be a tumbleweed of homelessness in … Continue reading →

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sun, moon, stars, rain…

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

If you are going to buy one book this year, let it be this. Why? Because it was written with YOU in mind.  I stumbled across i wrote this for you last year during The Big Upheaval from The Bay … Continue reading →

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of the irish…

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Words have long been my solace: writing keeps me sane; reading grants me comfort. The good gods of the ether and interwebs kindly dished real pearls this week – the most profound being a Celtic poem: Beannacht *   by … Continue reading →

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doors…

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

Life is a surprising little trip, ain’t it? When you least expect it, she shrugs her silken shoulders and neatly derails whatever predictable track you thought your train was on. At the last minute, without warning. As is her wont… … Continue reading →

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into the sunset…

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Yeah, I’m galloping off in search of adventure – again. I tell you, this writerly gig gets tough sometimes (between vine lands and Land Rover pedicures) but I keep walking: keyboard cocked, locked and ready for QWERTY action; camera slung … Continue reading →

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little talks and lionhearts…

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

You know me and music: tis the blood that spins the decks and animating this scarred scarlet heart. A blue bird over at Twitter dropped this nugget of acoustic brilliance (thank ‘em social media gods of good music) in the … Continue reading →

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he’s just not that into…

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

…girls. And other signs he might be a lot less straight than you bargained for. I’ve made some pretty phenomenal mistakes in the romantic realm but perhaps the most ridiculous has been the series of sexually ambivalent males I got … Continue reading →

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