Category Archives: THOUGHTS + FEELINGS

Power in thinking & creativity, sex & love, and self. Pressure in routine and spirituality. Trouble with social life. That’s today’s forecast, apparently. I have a confession: I can’t stop checking my Co-Star. For those unfamiliar, Co-Star is an astrology app that, after entering your exact date and time of birth, spits out your birthContinueContinue reading “I’m a sceptic who’s obsessed with her horoscope”

Hello, I’d like to make an appointment with the doctor, please…What is my ailment? Oh, I have two, actually. I have the travel bug and also homesickness… hello?… no, no I’m not… ah shit they hung up Ahh, homesickness. The odd, often unexpected and definitely uninvited older brother to FOMO. It can come as aContinueContinue reading “Will I be homesick forever?”

Our lives are punctuated by milestones, and a poignant moment in my young life was my eleventh birthday: the day I was given my first iPod. What came with this sturdy pink beast was infinite storage (actually 4GB) and infinite possibility. Up until this point my musical taste had been at the mercy of MixContinueContinue reading “Does miserable music maketh miserable lady?”

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen About a Boy, but there’s an idea in that film that has always stuck with me. The fancy-free Will (a fabulously floppy-haired Hugh Grant) lives off the royalties of a Christmas song written by his late father, and is subsequently minted, jobless and indulgent. Without the structure ofContinueContinue reading “Go on, leisure yourself”