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Happy Anniversary to Me!

Posted on August 31, 2020September 14, 2020 by nerida

This September, it has been 7 years since my marriage ended. If the 7-year-body-regeneration-theory holds any truth, the body that left my marriage exists no more. I am fresh and new.

I have caught you watching me.

Observing me.

Melding what you know of me with your consciousness and lived experience.

As Mary Oliver would say, what have I done with my one wild and precious life?

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I’m Single, Not Sick!

Posted on May 18, 2018May 21, 2020 by nerida

It’s Sunday morning, and I am scrolling through my Flipchart news feed when I land upon The Guardian’s “Dear Mariella” relationship series with the following letter: My father’s terrible behaviour means I can’t be intimate with men[1] “The dilemma: I’m in my late 30s, single, no children and I’ve never been in a long-term relationship….

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