News from Sarah Painter
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Getting started… Again
After months of revisions, I’ve finally started something new. I’ve been mulling over ideas and doing bits and pieces of writing and research, but something clicked over the weekend and I’m ready to dive in for real. I can’t really describe the difference between ‘trying to start’ and ‘starting’ (for…
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Bea magazine
Have you discovered Bea Magazine yet? A women’s ‘magazine’ that doesn’t tell you you’re not pretty enough or thin enough or that your toenails aren’t white enough or that you should feel ashamed if you eat cereal for dinner. We’re about acceptance, sharing, anti-bitching, intelligence, all sorts of culture, truth-telling,…
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On geekery
My daughter got taken shopping last week by her aunt and uncle as a birthday treat. She is twelve and shopping-as-fun is a very new concept. She’s at that wonderful (and sometimes scary) stage of working out who she is, what she likes, and how she wants to reflect that…