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  • From the clitoris to menopause, the uncovering and recovering of pleasure

    From the clitoris to menopause, the uncovering and recovering of pleasure

    I’d like to start talking about perimenopause by first talking about the clitoris. I don’t mean ‘just’ the little sticky-out bit that’s been the target of countless lame jokes if not the attentions of well-meaning men. I mean the entire internal pleasure-dome structure of it that dominates the female sex organs. A structure that wasContinue… Read more

  • A quick catch-up

    A quick catch-up

    and normal programming can finally resume… What a month it has been. I kept wanting to write to you and then BAM! my attention would get sucked into everything Neko. It’s been a month of good things, a lot of learning, and a lot of feeling into this new space of being comfortable in myContinue… Read more

  • Introducing Neko…

    Introducing Neko…

    400 years after Two Moons Cataclysm, Neko, the first-born male and last of the line of The Akashic High Priestess, is tasked with the forbidden: to record the history of The Last People and write a new story so that they can leave their crumbling ocean citadel of Mitpar and cross The Endless Water PlainContinue… Read more

  • Just browsing?

    Just browsing?

    My friend Jenny needed a hand at her second-hand bookstore this week, so I got to spend some time being a bookseller at The Book Junction in Claremont. The last time I did this, I was a student working at a book retailer in our local mall. (Wrote a column about that time and theContinue… Read more

  • A New Story: The history of our future

    A New Story: The history of our future

    Once, in the Time of One Moon, only Luna danced as Earth’s small sister. The land and ocean were separate. The land was dry, the ocean tame. Now in the Time of Two Moons, the land and ocean are no longer separate. The land is no longer dry, the ocean no longer tame. It isContinue… Read more

  • A newsletter about not much at all

    A newsletter about not much at all

    Sitting in Kalk Bay as I write this. It’s hot and humid, but a slow, cool breeze is starting to drift in from the sea. There was an orca in the harbour last week! There’s usually a fluster with the appearance of orcas, but honestly I’d take an intelligent mammal over a toothy fish anyContinue… Read more