PinnedAnna Spargo-Ryan·Oct 23, 2022Growing out of itIt won’t surprise you to learn that as an Extremely Sad Teenager I listened to a lot of three-piece bands. Soundgarden, Portishead…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedAnna Spargo-Ryan·Apr 28, 2021Why I do not routinely act like a knob even though I have ADHDLike many people with ADHD, I wasn’t diagnosed until I was a grown adult. There I was, out in the world: setting several dozen alarms in my…A response icon1A response icon1
Anna Spargo-Ryan·Nov 14, 2022NovIn the months before Gaz and I moved in together, I had a miscarriage in my friend Lisa’s toilet. I remember Lisa was making a lamb pizza…A response icon1A response icon1
Anna Spargo-Ryan·Sep 8, 2022R U OK now?I am so lucky to have people who care enough to realise when I’m tracking badly and do what they can to help. Many, many people deal with…
Anna Spargo-Ryan·May 9, 2021I have only written about my miscarriage once.I was about twelve weeks along. At the time, I was working at the Royal Australian Air Force base in Laverton, west of Melbourne. My…
Anna Spargo-Ryan·Jan 3, 2020How to be mental in the apocalypseIn the last moments of 2019, a town gathered by the water under a red sky. The fire had come too quickly, there was no time to evacuate…
Anna Spargo-Ryan·Nov 15, 2019Gladiatorial moments in suburban cushioI needed a couple of fitted sheets, so I went off to my local linen store.
Anna Spargo-Ryan·Sep 26, 2019The Greatest Legacy of AllWhen I was 14, I went with my boyfriend and his parents to Footy Park on a Saturday afternoon. We had never been to the football together…
