I was raised in a tower, with a view from a narrow, single window. And I could not have been happier. This will come as a shock to my...

In the lead up to what should have been Hugh’s eleventh birthday, I find myself thinking about the barbed wire and the paddock. That’s...

Tony Abbott probably feels like he falls into that last category. Browsing the Guardian online over my shoulder, Brydie notices one of...

Like Meanwhile, a Zimbabwean student in the US, Goodwell Nzou, wrote an article for the New York Times that caught my eye. “My mind was...

Also wrong: ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand. (How would they breathe?) America was not discovered by Christopher Columbus....

Will power.  Exceptionally unappealing in the two-year-old who has her shoe in your face and refuses to leave the carseat, but pretty...

Girls cannot take a compliment.  Like reading maps and weeing standing up, it just doesn’t seem to come naturally. (Okay, before you...

The other day I disappeared down a rabbit hole into a biblical cyber-wonderland where I stumbled upon an intriguing website.  It promised...

You’d think this would be self-evident but still.  We were young.  Christian.  As far as we were concerned honeymoon sex was the best sex...

Sometimes I do those personality quizzes that tell you what kind of animal you are and I find out I’m a hippo with the head of squirrel...

I’m a rational human being, right?  Someone gives me the facts, I make up my mind, right?  Actually, wrong… More and more research is...

“Bury him deep in love.  Bury him deep in love. Take him in, under your wing.  Bury him deep in love.” These are words from a Jimmy...

I haven’t forgotten the feeling.  My teacher had a silk-black Kawai upright and we were only allowed to play it after scrubbing our hands...

“Don’t make me kill you…” The Look clearly said.  You know the one.  And I wasn’t even close to her child at the time, honestly.  But...

Hipsters.  I thought they were just a variety of undies until fairly recently.  Nuh.  Apparently they’re effortlessly cool urban...

Jem and Brydie have chosen kittens and puppies wearing Santa hats for the Christmas cards they’re giving to all their friends at school....