Just to let you know this article refers to childbirth experiences. What does the word transition mean to you? Perhaps it conjures up the journey of someone who feels their body doesn’t reflect the gender they recognise themselves to be, and so they make some life altering changes. Perhaps it makes you think of aContinue reading “Times of Transition”
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Being More Lulu
Lately I’ve been feeling a great heaviness.Sub-optimal health and the general post-Brexit, peri-Covid world has left me feeling like life is a struggle, work is hard to come by and that people around me are not ok. It’s now become a habitual way of thinking for me.Part of my personality feels safe planning for theContinue reading “Being More Lulu”
55 and happy to still be getting the hang of it.
I’ve just turned fifty five. I’ve been looking forward to it. It feels like a special number. I tried an online search as to the symbolic significance of this number and you may or may not be surprised to learn that I found it to have a plethora of meanings. The one I liked bestContinue reading “55 and happy to still be getting the hang of it.”
Dark Days
Well here it is again. Right on cue. How can I possibly forget this phenomenon? Every year, just around the time I feel the impetus to write some Christmas cards, I feel a wave of abject misery roll down my body, plunging me in to unbelievable gloom. To be clear it’s not the thought ofContinue reading “Dark Days”
Walking Each Other Home: Why I’m Creating a Weekend Away For Women.
When I first started asking women to share their life-affirming stories about sexuality with me it was because I needed to hear them. At the age of 50 I found myself exiting a long and for many years happy marriage, partly as a result of questioning many of the things I had been taught toContinue reading “Walking Each Other Home: Why I’m Creating a Weekend Away For Women.”
Don’t Tread On Us
The other morning I awoke to the news that the legislation in the US guaranteeing women the national right to abortion since 1973 had been overturned by the Supreme Court there. It wasn’t a surprise. For years there have been ongoing erosions to this right and a leak to the media a while back meantContinue reading “Don’t Tread On Us”
Power and Pleasure
Did you know that in some circles May is known as “Masturbation Month”?I didn’t until recently, but I do now.Personally I prefer the term “self pleasure” as it sounds so much nicer to me, further from the horror of “self abuse” and all the judgement that goes with it.The phrase “biding my time” is myContinue reading “Power and Pleasure”
Women’s Day
About 15 years ago I attended an International Women’s Day Event run by the Council at my local community centre, on the subject of campaigning. I learned there that the local park where I took my wee ones, was only as well equipped as it was, because a group of mums had campaigned for it.Continue reading “Women’s Day”
The Process of Collecting Stories.
Over the last few months I have been meeting lots of women and hearing their life affirming, joyful and sometimes moving stories about sex. Most of those who have given me stories are women I have met before and who have some sense of who I am that allows them to trust me enough toContinue reading “The Process of Collecting Stories.”
Ladies Who Like It
Today I am launching “Ladies Who Like It”. For some time I have been talking about the importance of women’s stories about sex. I don’t mean erotic stories. I mean the real life, funny, inspirational, sometimes moving, life giving stories, that women have about their own experiences around sexuality. For many women they would neverContinue reading “Ladies Who Like It”
Red Velvet Revelry 