Category: Wonderings
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Won a Thing, Didn’t I?
All of last week, I lived in dread. Absolute dread. You see, I was up for an award. I love to win but I hate to lose far more. I would mostly rather not set myself up as a vulnerable, hopeful being if there’s a chance I might be cast asunder, beaten and bloodied by…
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Female Copywriters Talking Pay Gap
There’s a vast gender pay gap in copywriting. That’s what the Pro Copywriters’ Network survey showed last year; this year it was still there but BIGGER. There are conflicting views on why this is but it was one male view in particular that prompted my dear copybuddy, Kady, to ask around her network for our…
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I Journal These Days
Hullo. Yes, I’ve been missing. But missing in action. I’ve written millions of words, I’ve filled pages with pictures, I’ve worked a LOT, and – after a very long wait – I’ve adopted two children. They’re five weeks old so there’s still eight weeks to go before we can bring them home. They’re so tiny…
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I Used to Hustle
I used to be constantly moving and shaking. Shaking quite literally: with fear. Fear drove my pitiful carcass for many years, pushing and shoving me to greater things. I was BRUISED by ambition. And once I started feeling happier and more settled, I worried about losing my much-fetishised ‘edge’. The shining, electric zeal that kept…
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Princess
Feeble sex Afraid and crying In the wrinkled shade of the canyon Rhythm stolen He slowly fucks the love back inside A grimy wrist swings limp in the stale air of her forgotten castle Once the author of tangled charity acts, polished immortality Now, some belated chick Camaro snarls penetrate from out on the blacktop…
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