The Fairfax Curator
Blog: Oct 2016 - Present
Somewhere along the way I became an irritable, menopausal, disabled woman with a stack of feminist books and a lot to say. This was as much a surprise to me as it was to anybody. After medical retirement and a couple of years lost to sleep and inertia, I started wondering…what now? Eventually, I started writing down some of my adventures as a full-time hobbyist and creative. Mainly because I can.
So…let’s take the gloves off, and chat about the creative process. A blog exploring everything from education and art, to literature and gaming, shaped by lived experience and disability.
February’s Reads
With all my January worries and preparation for change, I expected February to be a dry month on the reading front, but I appear to have phenomenally overachieved against my own expectations…
Listening to Books: Some Basics
As children, memories of stories read to us in the evening by our parents, for many of us, comprise our earliest form of full-story reading, and as parents, we pass many stories, fiction and non-fiction, written and overheard, to our children in this form.
New Year’s Reading 2026
Following on from my 2025 final total of 156 books/audiobooks/short stories read, I have decided to continue with my newly re-established reading habit.