"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." ~ Oscar Wilde Simple pleasures... >...when your favourite team wins >...bread sticks and hummous >...a blanket of snow when you don't have to be anywhere >...watching the waves on the beach >...blowing bubbles >...eating what's left of the cake mixture out of the… Continue reading Simple Pleasures 4
"It sucks. Let's go get tacos and sit on the beach.” ~ Nina LaCour A quick update with another quick recipe. As I mentioned last time I've been hella busy lately, but hopefully things are calming down enough for me to get back on schedule soon. My fish tacos taste fantastic, even if I do say… Continue reading Fish Tacos in 15 Minutes
"It's not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" ~ Henry David Thoreau I'm sorry I've been missing this week. Just when I'd gotten into a proper posting schedule with themes and everything for the first time in four years, but I kind of got hit… Continue reading So, I Got A Little Angry On Facebook, I Did Not Anticipate What Happened Next
"One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements." Amor Towles Simple Pleasures... >...kissing >...a tidy house >...your favourite poem >...finding old love letters >...strawberries and cream >...the smell of old books >...new lambs >...a good, long laugh >...candle light… Continue reading Simple Pleasures 3
“Moving from phonetics to etymology, ‘vagina’ originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain’t got no vagina.” ~ Inga Muscio So, a late night conversation on Twitter last week led me to conduct some more polling. Completely non-scientific, non-generalisable polling of course. I like to think of it as finding out what a room… Continue reading I Asked A Bunch Of People How They Felt About Their Vulvas
“Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.” ~ Francesca Lia Block So, as I mentioned last week Mirtazapine was the second medication… Continue reading So Mirtazapine
"If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh." ~ Tom Douglas So, I mentioned a few weeks ago that I've been spending a lot of time thinking about cooking lately. And in doing so I've been really excited at… Continue reading Grilled Salmon With Spelt And Bean Salad
“The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalise the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candour, more unashamed conversation. ~ Glenn Close So, as I see that the ‘mentally ill loner’ trope has reared it’s ugly head again, and as pretty unsociable mentally ill… Continue reading Mental Illness Isn’t A Motive For Murder. It Just Isn’t.
“When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.” ~ Jeanette Winterson So, we've spent a lifetime watching sanitary towel and tampons adverts that show product demonstrations using some smooth, pale blue gel/liquid which doesn't resemble anything that actually exists outside of… Continue reading At Last An Advert Finally Acknowledges That We Bleed
(Image: Wikimedia) "If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach." ~ Irving Kirsch So, I said that I was… Continue reading Paroxetine
Make-Up & Mirtazapine 