I have been reading to Smallsteps at night since she was born and I will keep on doing it for as long as I can. Originally of course, it was pretty simple books, but in the last years we have moved through

This morning, I recieved a text from a woman I know from the beach. I've known her for years - she's the partner of an old kiteboarding mate of my Dads, that we in turn lived with, and I was taught to

I'm a massive fan of seasonal cooking, starting with the produce you have rather than a recipe that requires you to go to the supermarket. With an abudance of beetroot and swede, I had to go past the usual

Whilst I have loved looking after Amy, the german wire haired pointer that belongs to the neighbours, I have realised that whenever we have a guest dog, they don't obey the boundaries of a veggie patch.

I wrote a longer post on this subject, which you can read over on our Goed Life Patreon pages here and wanted to riff here also, as our decentralised and our truly alternative communities have additional

Busy roads, unusual loads, roadside stalls and the smells of everyday life. Discover Tanzania from the road.

Attempting to do difficult things is undoubtedly good for the soul. Even if we don’t accomplish what we originally set out to achieve we end up stretching beyond previously conceived limits, evolving,

So Autumn has apparently started and as it likes to do, it has brought along its friends: wind, rain and cooler weather. Yesterday afternoon, @clareartista decided that it was about time to start sleeping

What 20 Years of witnessing a stage 4 cancer survivor has taught us about life and friendship There are moments in life when your entire perspective on suffering, resilience, and wealth gets completely

Many years ago, I finally caved and bought a Nokia phone I didn't think I even needed because it came with a free discman. It had snake, and about 10 emojis from memory. You had to keep texts very short

No, there is no rest for wicked husbands. Evenly the wickedly good ones. Sorry, Hive men. I know you empathise with men forced to DIY for their wives. Rest assured, he wanted the window. First step was

What do humans need? Ask Becky Chambers in this beautiful little hope punk book, where we meet a non binary tea monk who meets a robot in the wilderness and muses upon what gives our lives meaning. I'm

Seeing that my husband was relaxing the other day, I found a job for him to do - create a breakfast bar overlooking the garden. I usually have a cuppa or my muesli standing up against the balcony rail,

What happens when an ideology tells women that significant parts of that natural expression are weaknesses, limitations, conditioning, or things they need to overcome? In order to understand what feminity

Big up to all my Hive friends who are original, thoughtful, and human a.f. I'm going to be unequivocal about this: If everyone uses Ai to write Hive content, Hive is no longer a platform I want to be on.

The good old AI question. When AI becomes so good that you can't detect it any longer, what will we be upvoting then? Just people? Their vision? Their opinions? Their contributions? Their goals? Their

For weeks now I've been feeling really depressed. It's not a usual state for me - I usually shake things off quickly. This time I've been as close to wanting antidepressants as anything, but as usual,

If there's any better way to wake up than a mate texting you and saying 'are you coming flying', I'd like to hear it. I've known this guy for 18 years and it's the first time I've been up - mainly as he

She sits on the bathtub edge, feet perched precariously on a time-slip soap-bubble. Comforting, the light-shallow breeze wafts in through the open door. Every ounce of her, inviting sin in. The promiscuity

On July 11 of this year I wrote a blog about a friend who had cancer. My 'friend' was about to undergo a procedure that was intended to kill a tumor on his adrenal gland. As some readers might have guessed,