Something I do a lot is read. You may have guessed this by all the times I talk about books, and all the time I spend procrastinating. I really love reading. To that end, I subscribe to a lot of readtastic magazines, in which I
It's hard to resist the comparison between this book and Lena Dunham's, not least because Amy Poehler herself refers to it in her introduction (alongside other wonderful books like Tina Fey's Bossypants). I will start by saying that I didn't think Yes Please was very funny. I mean,
At the end of this story, I'm going to recommend that you buy this book that my clever friend Al wrote. Fair warning. When I was six, I had the greatest birthday party ever. Everyone from my class came, because when you're in Prep (which is called Reception
When I was born, my Nan was 76 and had hair like buttercream. She had been waiting for me, she said, as I'm sure she did of all of her great-grandchildren. I knew I was her favourite because she let her hands rest on my
Five days ago, I entered a period of anxiety. I knew it immediately, by the way it crept around the bedroom door and snuggled in next to me. My anxiety. 'Hello,' I said. 'I was wondering when I might see you again.' and it smiled
A while ago, Michael's grandfather died. He was in his mid-90s and had been deteriorating for some time. Nothing specific, just age and frailty. I called my nanna and told her of this. It's sad, I said, but he had a good life. She was perplexed. Why did
My mother doesn't take shit from anybody. She is kickarse in all the ways available. She is an empowered and balanced and amazing woman. If she weren't my mother already, I would wish that she were. Probably. No offense to my other, hypothetical mother. As far as
Late in the night, I sometimes click on New Post and unravel two-to-three hundred words of some memory I have: bushwalking with shoes full of leeches, the vinyl couches in my childhood doctor's waiting room, buying clay from the little studio down the road. I love
When I was in my late teens, I went to Sydney to search for the person I loved. I had had my heart broken and I cradled its pieces in my carry-on luggage and we went to look for a new start together. In the first
Did you know that women who earn more than 66% of the total household income actually spend more time doing housework than women who earn 50% of the total household income? The Wife Drought offers this and all manner of other depressing factoids, and they are
