I’m an Alcoholic & I love Myself
I’m in the company of the great ones. Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, & Dennis Hopper, not to mention countless others. Alcoholics. Winos. Drunks. It’s yet another label to put on people, to...
View ArticleA Joyless Reunion (part 1)
My childhood had not adequately equipped me with an ability to love without sex. At 21 I had barely any relationship with my adoptive mother or my adoptive father. Both had found it necessary to leave...
View ArticleThe Not so Holy Cow
When the matrix was released it was a runaway hit. I, like many people, chose to see it more than once at the cinema. That in itself was groundbreaking for me, since I am far from being a cinephile (I...
View ArticleThe Manipulative Mother
When I tell people I have had three scholarships in my life, 2 academic and 1 music they are impressed. When I tell them I studied piano for 12 years but stopped short of Grade 8 (the highest grade),...
View ArticleScarred
We were back again. Through the mist of fields in affluent Cheshire, followed by grey hazy tower blocks to a hospital in inner city Manchester. The doctor said to me, ‘Do you still think it’s a dream?’...
View ArticleNo Doesn’t Always Mean No
As an avid watcher of every crime drama going, I see televised depictions of violence and abuse almost daily. Rape is always ugly, never deserved and usually the bad guy is put away by the end of the...
View ArticleShould China’s one-child policy be scrapped?
As a writer I believe in the power of words. They can make you laugh or cry. But there’s only one topic that makes me retch involuntarily from disgust. The abuse of children. Combine that with my...
View ArticleMy Fabulous Life
It was at the age of 17 my life became fabulous. And what I mean by that is that a) I discovered alcohol. b) I discovered sex. c) I left home. Drugs were to come later (and fortunately for me, because...
View ArticleKatie Hopkins – Sociopath? or Honest Woman?
Katie Hopkins – a controversial TV reality star in the UK – was recently published on Femail claiming that she outsources parenthood to a team of five nannies. The secret to being a happy mother? Hire...
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