Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

  Fly the great big sky See the great big sea Kick through continents Busting boundaries   I like to travel. I mean, when we’re not in the midst of a Covid induced standstill, I take every opportunity I can to travel. I started my intrepid ways at the age of 18 when, fresh out of high school, I hopped on a plane to the other side of the planet to do a working holiday in the UK, and I haven’t looked back. I never felt that I had to miss out on experiencing anything the world had to offer just because I was on my own. Initially at least, no boyfriend to hold my hand, and no girlfriend to do a bit of mutual back watching with. Just me. However, travelling as a Single White Female ( film reference intentional ) did present a few challenges for me. These challenges were not due to cultural clashes or ignorance, but because of my gender. I present to you Experience One. While travelling through Egypt in the mid-90s I had an employee of a motel I was staying invite hi...

  Men grow cold As girls grow old And we all lose our charms in the end   I have a boss. My boss happens to be male. He also happens to sulk - A LOT - and assume that things will just happen around him - that I’ll take care of things for him - without him having to get concerned about them. This sounds like a 1950s husband and wife scenario doesn’t it? I mean, when I was a kid - in the 80s, not the 50s by the way - if my mum wasn’t around to cook dinner, we were lucky to get fish fingers nuked in the microwave for dinner ‘cause, unless there was a barbeque involved, my dad had never concerned himself with learning the basics of cooking for himself. Then when my big sister turned about ten it was suddenly her responsibility to feed the family if Mum wasn’t around, again because Dad really couldn’t be arsed concerning himself with domestic chores. Given this childhood, I found myself cutting my boss some slack when he started sulking about the trivial stuff in the...