Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Author of 'The Water Diviner,' now a film with Russell Crowe, and screenwriter of 'The Pacific with Sam Neill.'

Sunset over a calm harbor with sailboats anchored near rocky hills and a foreground balcony with a red cloth draped over the railing.

In “How I Found My Muse on a Greek Island,” M. Wilson Anastasios reflects on her search for creativity during a transformative vacation in Symi, Greece. Struggling with menopause and self-image, she finds inspiration through a moving encounter with an older woman, ultimately rekindling her creative voice and embracing her identity beyond societal expectations.

Collage of photos and drawings pinned to a blue checkered background; includes children's photos and a hand-drawn illustration on lined paper.

From ancient myths to modern TV, the “monstrous mother” keeps showing up; it says more about our expectations of women than it does about motherhood. Ever feel like you’re not measuring up as a mum? Yeah, I feel you. No Mother’s Day breakfast would be complete without a steaming hot plate of guilt served up …

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How the Marrakech Medina broke me and the creative midlife reckoning that followed. The hormonal rollercoaster of being a woman of a certain age comes with the erosion of the foundations of who you think you are as a person. I was completely unprepared for that. How is that possible? How many utterly cringeworthy videos …

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Our grandmothers had survival skills. We have subscriptions. In the West, we’ve been played. And that bothers me. My answer? Grow tomatoes.

Why the West Is Terrified of Death
An Archaeologist’s Reckoning with Science, Faith and the Inevitable.
My dad was a surgeon. His favourite saying? “Life is a sexually transmitted, inevitably fatal, disease.”
This is about confronting the inevitable.
The end of all…. **this**

Why the Heritage Foundation’s new family plan should terrify you this Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it. It’s almost upon us. Colliding as it does with a moment in time when the ghastly truth about a global enterprise in the rape, exploitation and disposal of girls and young women seeps out from …

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It was a top-secret intelligence report written in 1943. But it could have been written today. It’s fucking inevitable. As a day of reckoning looms on the horizon, the ship will spring a leak or twenty. That’s because rats aren’t renowned for hanging around and going down with all hands-on-deck. They start to look around …

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Censorship, control, and rewriting American history I’ve discovered the line in the sand for corporate America. It’s not invading a sovereign nation to kidnap its leader. It’s also quite OK to take potshots at peaceful protesters and disappear American citizens into human cattle pens. As for sabre rattling and threatening allies and friends? Knock yourself …

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