sense of self – Snowbird of Paradise

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July 5, 2018July 5, 2018Snowbird of Paradise

If You Don’t Mind, It Doesn’t Matter

When is a good time to stop colouring your hair? It’s not a trick question, even though it sounds a lot like “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” You could answer that you shouldn’t even have started colouring your hair, but it’s too late for many of us. We already did. I started colouring […]

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January 27, 2015January 26, 2015Snowbird of Paradise

Anonymity, Names, and Identity

Once, when I was a young mother living in a new place, I had to ask people to call me by my first name. My husband called me “Sweetheart” or “Love” and my children called me “Mom” or “Mommy.” I had temporarily given up my career, so I had no colleagues to check in with. […]