27 August 2018

When I was small, my father would tell me stories and I would feel like I could not escape. I would feel like I was being talked ‘at’. I would look sideways for a means of escape … but I knew that if I broke the story-spell he was under, halfway through, there would be […]

The queen of soul, Ms Aretha Franklin died a week ago and I feel quite bereft inside as she was one of the musicians on the soundtrack of my life. Since she blasted on to the world music scene in 1967 with Otis Redding’s song ‘Respect’, which became an anthem for women everywhere, Aretha sang […]