I now live about one kilometre from the Sydney hospital I was born in, but that indicates very little about what's gone on in the years in between.
Having become a mother at 42 means that middle age is a lighthearted time for me personally.
Politically, it's a time of gloom and despair but I've always liked Gramsci's maxim, 'pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will'.
motherhood, psychoanalysis, bicycling, feminism, London, the media, infertility, children, lesbian motherhood...