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Claire Doble

Claire Doble

The drinker’s disadvantage

Regular, heavy consumption of alcohol puts you at a disadvantage in life. Why would you do that to yourself?

May 8, 2022

The drinker’s disadvantage

May 8, 2022

Claire Doble

Bucking the trend

This week I’ve been thinking about going against the grain and the energy that requires. I’m feeling a bit flat and I think I am in a sort…

Oct 7, 2020

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Oct 7, 2020

Claire Doble

Do you want to be sober but keep drinking?

Do you want to stop drinking or do you want to be sober?

Aug 27, 2020

Do you want to be sober but keep drinking?

Aug 27, 2020

Claire Doble

Mothballs

sometimes remember Bondi

Feb 10, 2020

Mothballs

Feb 10, 2020

Claire Doble

Exerciser

As a teenager and into my 20s, exercise was seen as dreadfully uncool. To play sport or go to the gym was seen as so establishment. So…

Sep 16, 2019

Exerciser

Sep 16, 2019

Claire Doble

The thing they never tell you about perfectionism

The thing they never tell you about perfectionism is, it means you don’t trust people.

Jan 21, 2019

The thing they never tell you about perfectionism

Jan 21, 2019

Claire Doble

Definitions of success

It was International Women’s Day last week. I find IWD problematic because it seems quite silly to me to have a ‘day’ for half the world’s…

Mar 12, 2018

Definitions of success

Mar 12, 2018

Claire Doble

Adventures in Discrimination

I have been on the job hunt here in Switzerland for several months now. Early on in my search, I had a job interview where I was slightly…

Mar 2, 2018

Adventures in Discrimination

Mar 2, 2018

Claire Doble

#26Cantons52Weeks: done!

In 2017 I set myself a rather ambitious goal (with 20:20 hindsight) of visiting all 26 Cantons in my adopted home country of Switzerland…

Jan 2, 2018

Jan 2, 2018

Claire Doble

Global Poetry Month

I’m writing a poem a day for April’s NaPoWriMo / GloPoWriMo poetry month over at https://clairevetica.wordpress.com/ — check it out : )

Apr 22, 2017

Global Poetry Month

Apr 22, 2017

Claire Doble

Claire Doble

Writer, editor, poet, off-duty goth, mother, feminist, environmental worrier, etc. Blogging at https://clairevetica.com

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