Author: Arch Copy
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Danny Kruger wishes I had four children and a quiet mouth
In my 33 years, I have done amazingly well at not getting pregnant. So well that I’ve sometimes mused that perhaps I am the barren old witch I claim to be. Because it’s not that I’m better than any other woman at being careful, being a good girl, not getting into trouble. I don’t want…
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Graves of glass
I walk with my eyes on the hedgerows and edges. I’m a scavenger, a mudlarker, a bottledigger and a hedgewitch. My eyes dart to anything that shines, a habit that’s filled my house with the detritus of many lives. But one day – the third-best day of my life! – I discovered the village dump.…
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Why the US election keeps me up at night
On election day, 2016, I woke up every two hours as America’s votes were counted. Not on purpose, and with very little hope. After the referendum, I was grim in my expectations. I didn’t cry. But the foreboding feeling that would stay with me for the next four years began. You see, America is our…
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A new analogy
Sewing. A humbling experience. You do a bold, brave line and you double back on yourself to make sure the stitching is strong. Then you realise you’ve sewn an arm to a leg, or to yourself. You have to unpick and start again. That’s sewing. And that’s life. You want the lovely jumpsuit? You’ve got…
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