Golden Jirl

Classic Albums - Tori Amos.

When I think about Tori Amos, two particular albums always come to mind. One of them is, ‘Little Earthquakes’ and the other is ‘From the Choirgirl Hotel’. I see both of these as being classics, but they are incredibly different in their styles.

‘Little Earthquakes’ is, of course, the one that started it all. With this album, Tori Amos suddenly became a household name. Not since Kate Bush, had the ‘girl with a piano’ thing been so popular and here More

When To Worry

A wise man once said that for every person in the world who has something great to say, there are others (he didn’t specify how many) who will say unsettling things—or maybe that’s my imagination. It’s hard to hear what a wise man is saying when you’re sitting on the bus, but I’m sure that’s what he was getting at. (Thinking about it, how wise is using the bus actually?)

I stumbled across a person saying something unsettling at this More

Gender roles in the household

One thing that I have to try really hard not to get upset about is the whole notion of the super-mom-career-woman. Anti-feminists are using this as a way of bringing down women who choose both to have a job, and to have a family. It’s too much, they tell us. How can anyone manage such a thing? The expectations are unrealistic!
This is not the case. After all, men have been managing to have a career and have a family More