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.
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Social media is real life
“The time has come," the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings.” So Lewis Carroll wrote back in the 1800s. I’d like to amend it...
I like my children
I like my children. They're good kids on the whole. Not perfect but none of us are.I'm proud of the girls they are turning out to be. They're funny and focussed. They are stubborn and cuddly. They are kind. They take genuine delight in other people. They will tell me...
Cars, colleagues, racism and why we need to ban American crime shows
It took just a moment on Saturday morning for two peoples days to be ruined. As the sickening crunch of metal indicated that two cars had collided, and the cars bounced to a stop, there was that moment where even the birds seemed to hold their breath before the...
Can we stop with all the movements?
I recently read this article titled Inside the growing group of women who wish they'd never had kids.And I wish I hadn't. Not because of what the women interviewed had to say, we all find ourselves somewhere we didn't mean to be sometimes, and kids are a fairly...
35 Australians for you to love that will annoy Senator Hanson
Look. If the poll saying that 49% of Australians agree with Pauline Hanson about banning Muslims is correct, the main question we have to ask is why they weren't in charge of the census? Their response rate is miles better and we're all keen for the results to...
On the road back to me
28 days ago today I was pretty much rock bottom.27 days ago I wrote a piece about living with depression and the importance of asking people about themselves.12 days ago the piece was published and like many people I read what I had written, and truth is, I...
Social media and the art of storytelling
Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to go to space. Once upon a time there was a little boy who liked to draw pictures. Once upon a time there was a woman who didn’t want a VPL under her white trousers. Once upon a time there were two men who wanted to make...
The voice inside
For those that have been with me since the heady days of 2012 when I talked about hating tuna, designer vaginas and in defence of Tony Abbott (true story), you'll know that I start blogging because I needed to use my words to talk about things that interested me, and...
10 things my children taught me
source: PixabayI am constantly amazed how much my children learn when they are away from me. I'm more amazed by how much they learn when they are with me, but that's a whole other story.We spend a lot of time worrying about what we're teaching our children. Are we...
For the love of hashtags
I love a good hashtag. I am even a fan of using hashtags incorrectly just to make a point or to annoy people who have a very strong sense of appropriate hashtag etiquette. But if you wander through the history of hashtags you can find yourself losing hours and hours...
Yes, I apologise to my daughters
I have been known on more than one occasion to utter the following phrase, "I don't care if my girls are as dumb as dogshit, provided they are kind and confident."Now I appreciate I'm no scientist and that for all I know dog poop could be full of sophisticated...
World Vision and the ‘F’ word
World Vision India is stuffed to the gills with feminists.Top blokes and feministsYep. Feminists. It's awesome. For the purposes of this post let us take Wikipedia's definition of Feminism:"Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social...