Parenting? Let’s be honest …
I’D volunteered for the cupcake stall at the school fair. “Making or selling?” enquired the mum at the gate. “Selling.”
Nikki Gemmell
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Regrets? Here are a few
I WISH I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself – not the life others expected of me.
Impure thoughts
THE letter was responding to a recent column about men who don’t have sex, detailing a stressful love life with his ex, failure to perform because of anxiety – but then it went off piste.
Why be a writer?
“WASTE of time, that” gruffed my father when first told of the writing dream many, many years ago.
Death of a romantic
IN my early 20s I lived in a share house – with one particular flatmate I barely knew.
Death of a romantic
IN my early 20s I lived in a share house – with one particular flatmate I barely knew.
Creatively confined
“DADDY’S spending his birthday in jail,” the four-year-old’s declaring to all and sundry as I run around hosing spot fires of speculation.
A car is a woman’s shed
THE scene: the local pool with a bunch of school mums, my four-year-old gently strumming her fingers through my hair.
ABC of equality
“HAVING your prospects determined at birth is the most pernicious and fundamental form of inequality.”
Eyes wired open
I have a fractious relationship with the dark hours; we fall in and out of love.
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