by Jackie Bailey | Jul 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Eulogy, 28-7-2015 Although I write words for a living, I don’t have the words to describe how I feel about my sister. I’ll try my best. I loved her and she was a part of me, and she always will be. Ally was there from my very first days, and she decided to be the best...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Maybe not yet. But calling the tragic events of Sydney yesterday “politically-motivated violence” is like asking people to start racial riots. This was an act of a crazy guy. A nut job. A sociopath with a criminal history. Calling this...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 4, 2014 | Random insights, Uncategorized
Something pernicious is afoot. It’s not a conspiracy; except that it is. As many of you will know, I research for a living. I spend many of my waking hours talking to people and then thinking about what they said, what it tells me about their views of themselves...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 3, 2014 | Random insights, Uncategorized
The first time I tried, and failed, to remove myself from God, I was 10 years old. I lay on the carpet, playing with the dust motes in a shaft of light which came in through a sneaky gap I had made between the heavy, dark pink drapes my mother kept closed all year...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 2, 2014 | depression, Random insights, Uncategorized
I sleep alone. I am beautifully, deeply, very married to a man who doesn’t take it personally. I tell people that it is because he is a snorer and I am a light sleeper, both of which is true. But as we all know, there can be more than one truth which relates to...
