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A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

The mother in me

Doug and I were dis­cuss­ing the ques­tion of having a doula the other morn­ing. For those of you who haven’t encountered the term yet, a doula is a birth attend­ant who is not a mid­wife but is there as phys­ical, emo­tional and spir­itual sup­port during the birth. The word…

What do you miss?

So, I did my taxes today. Looks like I’ll get a nice sum back, mostly due to my usual trick of not claim­ing a tax-free threshold for any employer. Also, because I scraped through from July to Decem­ber being sup­por­ted by Doug and earn­ing barely a cent from freelancing…

The world’s going to hell, but never mind

I don’t have time to write my own entry right now (too busy mark­ing) but instead I’ll point you at anthonybax­ter  and crazyjane13  for excel­lent ana­lyses of both the Amer­ican “I can’t believe it’s not social­ism” $700 bil­lion bail out and the…

Piccies

Piccies

That meme (but with cheating):Take a pic­ture of your­self right now.Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair – just take a pic​ture​.Post that pic­ture with NO edit​ing​.Post these instruc­tions with the picture.I was at work, so I didn’t take the pic­ture till today.…

Spring has sprung

Today was utterly won­der­ful. A mar­vel­lous picnic in the park with a parade of lovely friends, in the sun (although the wind was a bit of a pain) and then I wandered up High Street to the High Vibes fest­ival where I bumped into many other friends and acquaintances,…

Five things

My pro­ject went live yes­ter­day morn­ing after a week where I worked 11 hours on Sunday and until 10pm Tues­day and Thursday. I fixed many broken links and rewrote the dif­fer­en­ti­ation points for the mar­ket­ing staff. We had a party in the after­noon yes­ter­day and they gave…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.