My life has been colonised by migraines
They crashed into my world in my mid-thirties during a period of intense work stress. The agony can be so intense that I think death would be preferable, think death would be a relief.
Nikki Gemmell
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The rise of monster trucks feels like an affront
The owners seem so unthinking about their impact on others. This feels like the supremacy of self-interest, a pointer to civilisation’s end point. The meaning: each to their own.
Is it time to think about gathering Prince Harry back into the fold?
We were told Charles was ‘too busy’ to attend Harry’s Invictus service. Really? Here is a father who won’t see a son yearning for reconciliation, yet found time for David Beckham.
It’s a tragedy women have to live like this
He was right behind me now. I walked on, slightly quicker, all senses alert. I hurried into my car, locking doors with pounding heart. The man walked on, innocently.
The greatest damage you can do to a child? Withhold love
My mother told me once that if she had her time over, she wouldn’t have had kids. An offhand remark, possibly not meant, but never forgotten.
Television’s Bogie and Bacall are back for round two
Their show Colin From Accounts is a global hit. But does the smart, funny, sexy onscreen repartee of Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall translate to real life?
The little punctuation mark that is now a feminist issue
Ah, all the ways women are taught to police language and behaviour; all the rules to adhere to. All of it is about making ourselves nicer, sweeter. Smaller.
In suburbia, we were taught to refer to police as pigs
Hatred, inexplicably, was indoctrinated – it was ugly and unfair. Because for the vast majority of frontline workers, the will is towards service. We owe them.
An impossible choice — even for an avowed dog person
The vet had spoken: the cat had to go. For dog’s sake. But, but, there was an odd situation in this household – and Frankie knew something was up.
The brutal new class division appearing in Australia
That silky game of inheritocracy is playing out all around me.
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