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A handful of hope
This post is bringing you a little round-up of the things that have inspired me this past week, the things that reassure me that there is good in the world still. I’m about to head off to Burkina Faso...
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Christmas in a strange land
It’s only a few days till Christmas, and I am far away from home in the state of Arkansas, where everything is super-sized. Happily I am not alone, and I’m enjoying some family time (being in the same...
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2012: the year that was
It seems to be normal in the world of blogging to round up an old year with your favourite posts from the past year. I know I’m coming to the party late. Looking back on the year, and the blogs I have...
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My week with Walter
It’s book group time again! I am part of a virtual book group called Transit Lounge hosted by my friend Kelley at www.kelleynikondeha.com. Each month we read a book, in our different corners of the...
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A Russian play in Hackney, and our need to escape
Recently we took an outing to Hackney, to that outpost of the inner-city voted “worst place to live in Britain” by some TV show hosted by Phil Spencer and Kirsty Allsop about six or seven years ago. I...
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Serenading the City
I promised you news of my first writing project this week, so this is the story of Rubies in the Smoke. (No, not the novel by Philip Pullman, he had only one Ruby but we have four). Our theatre...
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Whose stories matter?
Last night I went to sit in sauna for an hour. Well, that was what it felt like, but actually it was a theatre. I watched a production called ‘A Conversation with my Father’, written and performed by...
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The fight in me
Mental taxation in a woman can lead to atrophy, mania, or worse – leave her incapacitated as a mother. This is not an opinion. It is a fact of nature. Dr Henry Maudsley, British psychiatrist...
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The play I (never) wrote
You might remember that while pregnant I decided to undertake two epic writing projects. I was going to write my first book and write the new show for my theatre company, The Ruby Dolls. (Clearly...
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Why I’m trying to be braver in 2015
Copyright © Rockwood R-VI School District At the end of my first term at drama school, a teacher whom I respected and feared in equal measure, told me that I was playing things safe. He was famed...
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