A new understanding of happiness
Netflix has a new show called Living With Yourself, a comedy where your miserable self, with your lifetime’s worth of emotional baggage, suddenly has a clone with none of your … Continue reading
Enthusiasm between friends
I grew up in a small town in the hinterland of the Gold Coast. It was a beautiful, if quiet, life. I had two or three good friends, a smattering … Continue reading
Five strangers in Florence
A few weeks ago, though it already feels like another life, I sat outside in the warm Italian sun with the cityscape of Florence before me. I was slowly getting … Continue reading
Why put a ring on it?
This blog post is on behalf of unmarried women everywhere and men who don’t understand what the big deal is. The romantic gestures of engagement and marriage are dying in … Continue reading
Barriers to happiness
I bought a writing bureau the other day. It was a last minute purchase, full of heady desire, urgency and opportunity. It appeared in a Facebook group for pre-loved goods … Continue reading
This is what most people are like
We all want to feel like our choices are valid, every bit as much as the choices by which most people’s lives are defined. We want to know that we are not alone.
Fairy tales are real
Life is a fairy tale. Although, it’s the kind of fairy tale we used to tell. Long before Disney, we told each other stories about conflicting priorities and consequences. The little … Continue reading
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