Writing
Author Q&A
What’s the best book you’ve read? Sheesh. Let’s pretend you asked for one of the best …
Ode to a beach house
What is it about these ramshackle homes that mean we forgive so much, and love them even more? How do four walls become troves of family stories and sand?
British Summertime
My Antipodean superiority complex meant I was completely unprepared to find that the very best season in the world is … the British summertime.
Kodak moments
It’s time to bring back the great ritual of the Family Photo Album.
Love, Jim
As the meme goes, "Our grandparents had to go to war, you just have to sit on the couch." I’d been sitting on the couch. I wondered what it felt like to go to war.
The Only Child
I would tell anyone who’d listen that we tried, we wanted, we couldn’t. Which is all a touch miserable, and pretty offensive to the one excellent child we did manage to have.
Bleeding
Say ‘vulva’, shake hands with gusto, talk about menopause over dinner. Do not quiet yourself.
Forty Two Letters
Do you know what it feels like to be blindsided by your past self? When I planned out the letters to write before I died, I didn’t mean to make "future me" cry.