Viva Bianca

The female experience is so nuanced, difficult, sensuous, fluctuating, emotional, tender, strong and vulnerable all at once.

The master, the joker, the perpetrator and the fool. The sly profit, accomplished antagonist and the riddler of glum and gloom.

Reread this list on the last Sunday of every month.

Melting into mum’s arms as if I’m finally allowed to melt and as if I never grew up at all.

An obsurd little skit of 21st Century domestic chaos LION, a small man dressed in sweats, comes home carrying shopping bags to find DANDY, a larger woman dressed in old men’s pajamas, in a ‘state’.

The very idea of these digital detox retreats really astounded me.

I have anti-punctualititis. There I said it. You may laugh.

“Will you ever get work done to your face?” It felt like a fly had suddenly flown into my mouth and as I turned to discover the man behind the question my abdominal muscles swatted it.

1. My list Daniel Day Lewis, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sofia Coppola (or Marilyn Monroe), Shakespeare and Gautama Buddha. 2. Adrienne McQueen Jared Leto, Julian Assange, Sandra Bullock, Alex Proyas and Oliver Stone. 3.

1. Tell her you love her every day. You get extra brownie points if “I love you” is the first thing she hears that morning. 2. Buy her flowers at least once every 2 weeks.

“My mom’s the kind of woman who applauds female pioneers as “gutsy” and dismisses old-fashioned misogynists as “pricks”.

Who hasn’t been in a long distance relationship? Skype, FaceTime, whatsapp, imessage, viber… the list goes on (and the apps continue to taunt), have all made global rendezvousing possible. Legit. Fashionable in fact.