Category Archives: Columns

When the landscape of wrongdoing is so vast, where’s the value in feeling bad? It’s a horror scene. I’m in the lounge looking up at the ceiling and the blood dripping from it. There’s a suitcase hidden there, oozing from the limbs I stuffed in it. I must do something about the bodies before theContinue reading “Guilty as sin”

Fear is a messenger if you’re willing to listen It was an overcast day out of season and we were done with the volcano stop. We’d viewed Mount Agung from the safety of a village close by and were ready for something else. ‘You want to go closer?’ our driver Gede offered. ‘I know aContinue reading “Between the devil and the deep blue sea”

You don’t have to be a wizard to change your world, says Tanya MeesonWoman&Home, January 2023 When I was a teenager, one of my favourite reads was a high fantasy series written by David and Leigh Eddings called The Belgariad. Although I remember very little of it, one of the main story devices lodged inContinue reading “The magic of intention”

After a difficult year maybe it’s okay to indulge in some schmaltz, says Tanya MeesonWoman&Home, December 2022 There’s a moment close to December that shifts the balance of the year full tilt into year-end jollies or the screaming heebie-jeebies, depending on where your musical proclivities lie as you stroll the shopping aisles selecting your veggies.Continue reading “Have yourself a merry little blissmas”

Pleasure is the new fitness, right? Tanya Meeson hopes soWoman&Home, November 2022 Although I’m a fan of New Year’s Lists, one thing you’ll never find on mine is ‘get fitter’. That’s because I know my limitations and, if life has taught me anything, it’s that I don’t have the strength of mind necessary to commitContinue reading “Ready, set, slow”