Anniversaries
8 years ago I started visiting the MITA detention centre. It was the scariest and weirdest thing I have every done in my entire life. (including dressing up as a […]
Author Archives: margaretmayhew
Covid Capers 3: the lockdown
We are coming to the end of a pretty bleak Melbourne winter – during which I didn’t write or create much at all. I find that the constant background stress […]
Covid Capers Part 2: walk to the light
So it’s been 1 month since I wrote my last doom and gloom predictive scenario. I have been in social “iso” for 2 months. Peak whiteness moments include attending a […]
COVID Capers
I should have set a feature image as a jar of capers in my pantry stash. This is not part of the Day xxx of Social Isolation, which is a […]
The end times
Last year was fairly shitty, and I shut down and stopped reading books or writing anything and my creative output slowed. I also had recurrent bronchitis and asthma and spend […]
Not breathing, weeping.
I am coming out from the other end of nearly 2 weeks where I couldn’t breathe properly. In a previous epistemological framework, where I saw my physical flesh as separate […]
A faint shade of Yellow Peril
I haven’t quite left academia. After declining a sessional tutoring contract, and cancelling my dole on the verbal offer of a full time well paid traineeship in a different sector […]
Eulogy
Here is a link to a former blog post – when I was a grumpy ECR/early Paracademic, emerging from my first horror post-doc nightmare, and finding words to wrap around […]
Sunshine and Sorry
The past 12 months have been incredibly challenging even by my Kimmy Schmidt extreme sports coping standards. Year of the Dog really bit me hard… Here is a little listicle: […]
the think I love
Today, I have the Guardian news feed open on my laptop. This is not frequent. I swallowed antidepressants, anti histamines and pain killers with my morning coffee. I coaxed my […]
First World Problems 