Clare Dodd

August 18, 2013

Getting Excited

Competing against a phantom

Clare Dodd

August 18, 2013

Getting Excited

Competing with, and comparing yourself to a phantom takes your focus away from what's right in front of you.

Clare Dodd

August 4, 2013

Interesting things, Writing

The current trumps the conditional

Clare Dodd

August 4, 2013

Interesting things, Writing

If we lived perpetually in the conditional, we would never have anything new to say. It's the current that keeps us thinking.

Clare Dodd

July 14, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

A varient on normal

Clare Dodd

July 14, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

It's all a question of normalising what it is to be on a spectrum.

Clare Dodd

July 7, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited

Carnival!

Clare Dodd

July 7, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited

In case you didn't catch the hint - I went to a carnival today, and I went alone. It was sunny, loud, fantastic and, inevitably, thought-provoking.

Clare Dodd

June 30, 2013

Getting Excited

Getting your kicks

Clare Dodd

June 30, 2013

Getting Excited

Throwing caution to the wind and getting your kicks however you can.

Clare Dodd

June 23, 2013

Books, Cities, Getting Excited

The New Yorker in the bath

Clare Dodd

June 23, 2013

Books, Cities, Getting Excited

The New Yorker in the bath, writing gloves, Greg Proops and all the things that do and will have one particular thing in common.

Clare Dodd

June 2, 2013

Feminism

My cause and me

Clare Dodd

June 2, 2013

Feminism

Just as feminism is coming to the public fore, I suddenly find myself unfamiliar with some of the discourse of the cause.

Clare Dodd

May 26, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited

How long has it been?

Clare Dodd

May 26, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited

Taking a little time to catch up, see what's happening and, more often than not, simply just laugh, doesn't half make you feel all loved and lovely.

Clare Dodd

May 19, 2013

Cities, Popular Culture

A question of class

Clare Dodd

May 19, 2013

Cities, Popular Culture

Once seen, why do people not continue to notice, see and speak about a divide that seems to persist so silently?

Clare Dodd

May 6, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited, Interesting things

Sighted and seen

Clare Dodd

May 6, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited, Interesting things

A month in a montage. In other words, a visual tour of some sights I found to be worth seeing.

Clare Dodd

April 28, 2013

Coffee, Popular Culture

Buzz, buzz, buzz, that's what caffeine does

Clare Dodd

April 28, 2013

Coffee, Popular Culture

This weekend I attended the terribly hip and oh-so trendy London Coffee Festival. And it was absolutely bloody brilliant.

Clare Dodd

April 21, 2013

Writing

I haven't forgotten you

Clare Dodd

April 21, 2013

Writing

It is Sunday, and I should be writing. But output doesn't put out without some input.

Clare Dodd

April 14, 2013

Getting Excited, Popular Culture

What a meta Wednesday

Clare Dodd

April 14, 2013

Getting Excited, Popular Culture

A culmination and combination of a rather meta Wednesday and a rather inevitable and timely conversation sparked by Thatcher's death.

Clare Dodd

April 8, 2013

Getting Excited

Not enough charge

Clare Dodd

April 8, 2013

Getting Excited

Two days of sunshine, a morning of gloom and a post of undecided outlook.

Clare Dodd

March 31, 2013

Getting Excited

Laying the foundations

Clare Dodd

March 31, 2013

Getting Excited

I am very excited. This weekend I got to work on my foundations, and for once it wasn't cheap.