About Imperfect Pages
My name is Kirsty and I am a mother. I had my first son in August 2008 and my second in April 2010. I left work as a university administrator to raise my son, and I now work part time as a freelance writer under the name Perfect Pages.
I studied Philosophy at university and I still like to think very hard about things. I love the absoluteness of true and false (I have, in the past, been a big maths geek) and I don’t like the vagueness of ethics. Recently truth is becoming important to me in terms of standing by your decisions and living in a way you can be happy with, knowing that you’ve done your best and what you think is right.
On a more lighthearted note, I like fashion and shopping for lovely things (although I am too skint to do much about it), cooking, wine (too skint again!), keeping up with the news, and reading everything all the time (if only I had any time).
Parenthood so far has been an amazing journey and seeing my kids develop and grown is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I hope you’ll follow me as the journey continues.
It’s amazing the legacy studying philosophy at university can have…! Although that is utterly a chicken and egg comment…after all, is it not because of who we were before, that such a degree was our choice? One of my tutors always used to say that any old tom, dick or harry can read or ‘study’ philosophy, but a person is either born a philosopher or not…and if you are, you’re buggered, because it will never leave you!!
I really like your blog and thoughtful writing style! With respect to the above, it made me wonder – if you’ve studied philosophy, how can you believe in such a thing as absoluteness of true and false? What is true in one nation state is false in another, no? Isn’t it all down to perception?
Also, and this is just an observation, not a criticism, I don’t understand how you can not like vagueness – when I did some philosophy modules at uni, all it seemed to me was vague!