starting over: how i found freedom after 40
Never thought I'd be here, honestly. Forty-five and rebuilding my entire life after Jimmy decided he wanted a younger model. Typical. But here's the thing about divorce that nobody tells you: it's ter
13 stories from 3 writers across Scotland
Never thought I'd be here, honestly. Forty-five and rebuilding my entire life after Jimmy decided he wanted a younger model. Typical. But here's the thing about divorce that nobody tells you: it's ter
Got a particular breed up here in Aberdeen that keeps me in Jimmy Choos and decent whisky. The oil industry contractors. They roll through with corporate credit cards that could choke a horse and zero
There's this moment in every academic meeting where someone asks about transferable skills. They mean things like 'data analysis' or 'critical thinking'. They do not mean what I'm actually thinking: h
Sometimes I catch myself thinking how beautifully absurd my life is. Here I am, Dr. Moira Henderson, with a doctorate in cultural anthropology and a sideline that would make my dissertation committee
Funny how life throws ye curveballs. Ten years ago I was a newly divorced mum wondering how I'd make rent, now I'm running my own wee business and making more in a week than I used to in a month.Nobod
Sometimes I wonder if my dissertation supervisor would laugh or cry if she knew how I fund my research. I'm literally reading Foucault while waiting for a client, thinking about power structures in su
When I was younger, I thought being sexy was about looking like the girls in magazines. Tight body, no wrinkles, all that nonsense. Now I know sexy is about confidence. About knowing exactly what you
Some days I look at my PhD and my current work and marvel at how completely bizarre my life trajectory has been. There's something almost comically surreal about defending a complex theoretical disser
Sometimes I wonder how many of my academic colleagues would react if they knew how I actually fund my research. The irony isn't lost on me: I'm writing a dissertation on social structures and transact
Sometimes I wonder how my dissertation committee would react if they knew how I funded my research. Not that they'd be shocked. Academia's pretty cutthroat. Funding's funding.My current research on ge
There's a certain type of client you get in Aberdeen that's pure product of the North Sea oil industry. Massive wages, minimal social skills, and an expense account that could sink a small country. I'
Weird how my doctoral research in social psychology keeps bleeding into my current work. Not that I planned it this way, but understanding human behaviour is apparently a transferable skill whether yo
People always assume academia and sex work are worlds apart. They're not. Not really.My doctoral research was about labour economics and marginal work identities. Which, looking back, feels hilariousl