Talking Frankly is about everything from housework to human rights. It is a mixture of observation, commentary and opinions.
It also contains a lot of profanity along with the humanity. And please don’t steal my work. Somebody invariably dobs you in and it gets messy.
Enjoy!
Kids don’t mean to be arsehats
I've been thinking about an article I read recently that said parents have a responsibility to stop children questioning difference aloud as it is intrusive, hurtful and rude.I don't doubt that questions posed by children, and adults, are at times all of those...
Love – Nil
Look, I hadn't ever heard of Margaret Court before. I'm sure she's great at tennis but she's a bit shit at being a loving inclusive Christian type.Here's the thing about gay people.They're gay.They happen to love people of the same gender.It's that fucking...
Loving your brand stupid
Whether or not you like it, your most important customer service touch-points in 2017 are your social platforms. Quite simply, social media platforms force brands to behave well. A simple case scenario: Buying jeans. You go into a shop. You buy a pair of jeans. You...
Why do I do what I do
Since I was little I always wanted to write, to communicate stories, not just fictional ones but ones that made sense of the world that I actually lived in. Retrospectively, so many of those stories that I lived, weren’t enough. They didn’t satisfy the urge in me to...
These are just days in our lives
I'm all for inclusion.I'm all for mindfulness.I'm all for kindness.But I am absolutely over seeing other people apologising for things that aren't even things.Take Mothers' Day. Darth Vader had a mother tooA Ms Jarvis, established spinster and massive fan of her own...
I see you little one
I see you little one.I see your eyes sparkling with delight behind your long lashes.I see your easy smile.I see you use words like 'love' with an easy familiarity.I see you sing loudly even when you don't know the words.I see you watching all that she does.I see your...
My broken bum and why World Vision rocks
There are thousands of moments in our lives where we do something and the thing we do is of no consequence. Things that might make no sense in retrospect or are hard to explain, but that you have done a zillion times before with absolutely no need to tell anybody. And...
World Health Day: Depression – Let’s Talk
It's World Health Day - 7 April - and this year they want us to talk about Depression.Sometimes, I feel that I talk about depression a lot. But other times, when I encounter people living with it and they are feeling like they can't talk to anybody about it, I feel...
The old lie
I lay in my bed last night, sobbing my eyes out, as I watched the ghastly video of the children of Syria dying as the result of chemical warfare.I read the articles, trying to get my head around who was responsible. And I realised it didn't matter. Whether it was...
We are all the lady in the hijab
12 years ago, I was living in Dublin and my then boyfriend (now husband) was still living in London. We talked every morning. I'd be sitting at my desk in the Microsoft offices where I worked, and he'd be sitting on public transport running late for work, which was...
Schools and social media
It’s a mystery to me why schools are bothering to teach children about the benefits and dangers of social media when the majority of schools are not modelling positive, proactive social behaviours on their own platforms. A lot of school social platforms are run by...
Dream the impossible dream #iwd
This morning I was explaining to my daughters that today is International Women's Day.I ramped them up a little on the walk to school, calling out "WHO RUNS THE WORLD?" and they would yell back "GIRLS!"."But why do we have a girls day?" says Cassidy."Because women...