I remember when Sandra Coney’s book Standing in the Sunshine was published in 1993. An illustrated book, it celebrated the social history of New Zealand women in the 100 years following 1893. The significance of that date was of course New Zealand women won the right to vote. At the time, I was a young mum of three growing children, …
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The stroke that felled Kate Davies in 2010 provides the central narrative to her memoir, Handywoman (Makadu Press, 2018). ‘I set out to write a book about my experience of brain injury’ she writes in the Introduction. And, she has. Handywoman takes the reader through her happy childhood, her mental health issues and stresses of being an academic, the day …
I often ask myself why do I knit. I live in Queensland, Australia for goodness sake where it is very hot in the summer and warm in the winter. Certainly, there is little need for anything remotely woollen. Yet, I knit. All year round. The answer to my question is, I think, one part simple (‘I have always knitted’) and …
Life can be such a strange beast. Our life journey generally operates on auto-pilot and we rarely thinking about nasty things happening to us. I have always had migraine headaches. They began in my teens and always with full bells and whistles. By this I mean migraine with aura – visual problems in the form of wavy lines and flashing …
A few weeks ago, I came across Lyn Slater’s blog The Accidental Icon. A professor in Social Welfare at Fordham University in New York, Lyn loves fashion and this is what her blog is all about. Yet, it is so, so much more than fashion. In one of her latest posts, Getting to Know Your “Red”: Here’s Mine she asks her …