About Karen

I am first and foremost Pete's girlfriend and Bernard's mother. I am a kept woman, earning pin money and karma by working as an NCT Breastfeeding Counsellor and a doula. I am a skeptic who knits.

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August 18, 2004

Dear Sirs

I write in application for any suitable position in office management, quality management, or administration. I am currently employed on a six month contract with a large local recruitment agency, which will end at the end of August. My remit … Continue reading

Karen
August 16, 2004

Dear Doctor Pockless

Thank you for your letter. I hope we’re not being too esoteric in discussing so much of our correspondence during the years since we both left home. I remember well those long rambling epistles, usually written on the back of … Continue reading

Karen
August 13, 2004

If you can’t beat them, join them

Fabulous advice in last Sunday’s Observer: The Problem: Wife discovers husband is looking at SM porn on the internet. She is disgusted, and he refuses to give up his interests. The Advice: Mariella Frostrup tells wife to get over herself; … Continue reading

Karen

Kinktails

Thirsty work, these fetishes. You’ll be wanting a drink; And all you have to do is confess to your kink. Mine’s a bloody mary, and a bit of a thing about corsets.

Karen
August 12, 2004

Other People’s Kinks

Despite the opinions of current and former colleagues, I am not the world’s most prudish woman. You know this; you’ve seen my shoes. I would like to think of myself as an open-minded and tolerant kind of person, but frankly, … Continue reading

Karen
August 8, 2004

That salty greek perversion

I must confess, I do have a bit of a thing for greek salad, particularly that delicious crumbly cheese, all moist and tangy. It tastes almost as good on the eye as on the tongue. Pete and I have just … Continue reading

Karen
August 6, 2004

Ode to a cocktail

Welcome to everyone, and let me say: cheers, I hope you enjoy all these cocktails and beers. For Graybo, Destructor, Pockless and Lyle Who all have been drinking round here for a while; Not to mention Sevitz AKA Ade, Who … Continue reading

Karen
August 5, 2004

Summer Storm

Unbrella’d, I walked home. Single spots of rain soaked my shirt, And the wind whipped up a cloud of dandelion clocks Like the insignificant tumbleweed in an empty comments box. I lay down underneath the storm, Listening to thunder clogging … Continue reading

Karen