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Matthew Todd – Straight Jacket: How to be gay and happy (2016) Review
Sometimes a book comes into your life at the exact moment you need it. It’s a rare thing but it can suddenly change the way you look at your own life and if you’re lucky, it can also start to...
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Objective for 2016: to look outside of myself
Writers can be terribly egotistical and often focus too much on themselves. When they do think of others, it’s in relation to their own lives without being overtly aware of the other person’s. They...
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The self(ie) as brand
Love them or loathe them, the selfie is here to stay. The advent of lightweight camera phones, with technology to reverse the lens so it points directly at you, makes taking pictures of yourself so...
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Gender roles in a same-sex marriage
As I was pegging the washing out on the line yesterday, I thought to myself, ‘hmmmmm, why do I always end up doing this?’ Putting the weekly clothes wash on, cooking dinner, food shopping, cleaning –...
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Sweet Sixteen
At the moment I am writing a new collection of poetry that tackles the subject of growing up gay as both a child (yes, I did actually know that I was ‘different’ from a very early age) and a teenager....
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Gen X or Gen Y?
It’s a strange thing straddling two different generations and not completely belonging to one or the other. I was born in January 1979, so I slip easily between the gap where Gen X ends and Gen Y...
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A Spring Haze
As Tori Amos once sung, “Well I know it’s just a spring haze/But I don’t much like the look of it…” The song is one of my ‘Tori favourites’ taken from her To Venus and Back (1999) album and it has been...
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Blue Jasmine and how I got over my own breakdown
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine “Well there’s only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take the streets and start screaming… they picked me up on the street talking to myself and gave me...
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Susan Cain – Quiet: The Power of Introverts (2013) Review
“Introversion… is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.” Back in December, I wrote about taking the Myers Briggs Type Indicator test and that I...
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On Being an INTJ
As part of an away day at my workplace, we all took the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to help us understand the different personality types and preferences that exist within our team. Having...
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