Essays · Commentary · Opinion
Longer pieces where I think aloud about neurodiversity, parenting, culture, care, and the systems around us.
The collection
Social commentary · Personal experience
Reflections on Jimmy Carr Live in Ottawa: acceptance, difficult conversations, parenting, and the care that made a night out together possible.
Social commentary · Personal experience
A real school-morning negotiation becomes a practical look at authoritative parenting: warmth, limits, sleep, school resistance and a tired mum’s capacity.
Social commentary · Personal experience
Rethinking what we inherited, what we pass on, and what it means to parent.
Social commentary · Personal experience
After one gymnastics session went badly, the coaches at Cornwall Gymnastics Club listened, shared what they knew and helped my son enjoy the gym again.
Social commentary · Personal experience
One terrible gymnastics session, one missing visual map, and why accepting neurodivergent children is not the same as being prepared to include them.
Social commentary · Personal experience
Isn’t Starting. It’s Coming Back.
Social commentary · Personal experience
A personal reflection on threats of abandonment, parentification, misogyny, and learning that daughters are children—not debts, servants, or obstacles.
Social commentary · Personal experience
A Grade 1 transition, a frightening misunderstanding about school safety, and the questions that helped turn panic into a clear plan for accommodation and support.
Social commentary · Personal experience
A nervous laugh, a federal renaming order, and the strange moment Doug Ford sounded like the reasonable adult in the room.
Social commentary · Personal experience
My love letter to Harry Potter—and a plea to J K Rowling.
Social commentary · Personal experience
A personal reflection on childhood humiliation, the shame it can leave behind, and the gentler kind of parenting sensitive children deserve.
Social commentary · Personal experience
A personal account of decades of dismissed pain, the evidence behind medical gaslighting, and practical ways women can question, document, and seek second opinions.
Social commentary · Personal opinion
On Autism, Denial, and the Violence We Call Discipline.
A reflection on neurodiversity, denial, punishment, bodily autonomy, and the questions we should be asking about what children need.