“Happiness is the reflection of a smile”, from Holly’s words of wisdom: An appointment calendar for 1977. Hello Holly Hobbie I didn’t know anything about her except that her name was Holly Hobbie, and she was the first to keep my secrets close in a white diary. Holly Hobbie, an American writer, water colour artist…
Month: February 2022
What has she been up to?
She said, I said I love Margaret Atwood. She is one of those writers whose words ruthlessly wrap around me the moment I turn the first page and plummet my mind and body deep down into the darkness of the world she imagines so that, as she suggests, we might “bring something back out to…
Fashion advice from Jeanette Winterson
Today I REAL-ly did wear a second-hand taffeta green dress I bought from Vinnies to work. On the way from the carpark to a room of my own on the sixth floor, my silver sandals REAL-ly did start to break. I REAL-ly did take a pair of scissors and cut off the loose straps –…
Remember, love
A terzanelle for Lynette Love. It’s a word I hear my Mum say a lot. “Hi Beth, how are you love?”, she asks when she picks up the phone with a soft tone that makes me think and wonder that maybe she is smiling. “That’s good love”, she says as she listens to my latest…