Our family was a movable community squatting in house after house never suitable and never ours. Each new vicarage was a thrill but icy or haunted or just too small they never were homes for our mother, not at all. Imagine moving, moving, moving seven times in fourteen years gathering daughters along the way. And then […]
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People truck through phases. Shakespeare
Erikson and Sheehan all agree on that.
Young people rarely tell us
that they’re struggling
in the dark behind the mask:
Some can go it alone
and some never need to be told
but I need a weekly schedule
for hula, Pump, t’ai chi
Pilates and Crows Feet dance
I’m an AirBnB host in Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand. A series of always delightful people stay with me for 2–5 days if and when it suits us both.
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I found ageism rampaging
in my neighbourhood
in job descriptions and prescriptions
in jokes and compliments and ads
on every screen, in tips and fads
