14 Jul On Failure
There’s this thing that a lot of people do where they talk only about the good times. It’s not everyone – I definitely know people who focus on the negatives and make you worry that their world is falling apart when it...
04 Aug The Thirty Things Most Likely to Give Me Parent Rage
Obviously, Parent Rage isn’t an official thing. Unlike Road Rage, Trolley Rage, and You’re-Invading-My-Personal-Space-DIE-IN-FIRE irritation (I may have made that last one up, too). But I am convinced it is, in actual fact, a Thing. I’ve experienced enough of it, and -...
21 Jul What I learned at Legoland: In loving memory of a wonderful woman
The wonderful Sarah Napper was arguably the loudest person on the planet: a bear-hugging, attention-grabbing, bellowing force of nature and fun who had made it to thirty and walked and talked (usually, shouted) despite all the medical reasons against her. I met Sarah...
13 Jun The 8 Wisest Things My Three-Year-Old Has Said
I’m not going to try and claim that my son is the future Dalai Lama, or even that he’s especially smart (I mean, I’m biased, so of COURSE he’s the cleverest boy ever. But realistically, he still insists that he started at...
21 Feb Ketchup, Skinny-Dipping and Knock and Run: How the last day of my twenties turned into a challenge…
Two days before I turned thirty, I made the mistake of reading an article on how life changes in your thirties. It was full of predictions of having early nights, of patronising gloom about hangovers and not understanding popular music, and of...