You don’t need to paint to call yourself creative I was once Mother Goddess. Or, at the very least, I was channelling her. It was a one-person, one-night-only performance and I was an electric vessel in a state of afflatus, a powerful force of devastating wonder. Pity then that I was on a stage inContinueContinue reading “In the beginning was the word”
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A step into the unknown
There’s big magic in everyday bravery Woman&Home SA, August 2021 Deep in the forested mountains of northern Taiwan is a small natural pool called Celestial Lake. It’s a swimming hole for the rocky campsite that runs adjacent to it and a minor attraction for those who like jumping off cliffs into pits of icy coldContinueContinue reading “A step into the unknown”
Hand on the wall
The column should’ve started with a hand print. It’s the image that kept coming to me as I wailed and gnashed my teeth through writing the September column for Woman&Home SA. The gist of the piece is about creativity, and it forced me into a conversation with myself that I’d been trying to avoid forContinueContinue reading “Hand on the wall”
A note on thanks
Sometimes the only way to see properly is with some gratitude, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, July 2021 Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen starts not with friends Kay and Gerda, but with a wicked goblin. The story goes that the evil goblin created a mirror that distorted everything reflected in it; what was goodContinueContinue reading “A note on thanks”
Gossip, girl
Sharing is caring and Tanya Meeson is done feeling bad about it Woman&Home SA, June 2021 It’s late-night Twitter and I see my sister chatting to a guy I’m uneasy about. I shoot off a text: ‘Just watch out for that one. Got called out on Twitter about a year ago for being a creeper.’ContinueContinue reading “Gossip, girl”