Given the public/private crossovers all our lives have become online, it’s hard for people to find the boundaries these days between personality and brand; between what’s appropriate and fun and what’s being a needy whiner.

Diary of a Free Woman Day Two: Turtle Doves Christmas Eve, 24 December 2009 The University is closed for Christmas. I am eating lunch alone in a bakery near the campus. The thought of losing a relationship of thirteen years connects unpleasantly with the taste of pumpkin, spinach, sesame oil and seedy bread: I don’t […]

Diary of a Free Woman Day One: True Love 23 December 2009 Today is the day my marriage will end. (Although I don’t know this while I sweat in the Perth heat, crushing spices and simmering two vegetable curries for my husband’s mother’s family Christmas party.) My mother-in-law’s annual family Christmas party is a thing […]