I’m often late to jump on a bandwagon, so I only recently saw Hamilton for the first time. Now I’m hooked. I loved it. The song lyrics are stuck on repeat in my brain; I even keep waking up singing them! If you haven’t heard of it, Hamilton is…

When I was thirteen, I started boarding at my school. My family moved across the country, a 6-hour flight and then a 5-hour drive away from me. Our school had day students and boarders, but they mostly socialised separately. The other boarders…

I don’t know about you, but the recent months of school at home exposed some pretty ugly cracks in the façade I’d created for myself of being a good mother. It’s much easier, it turns out, to parent your children when they aren’t in the…

Have you had a Coronavirus meltdown yet? Today I had an ugly cry in Coles. I am feeling pretty embarrassed about it. As I jostled my way through the crowds and past empty shelf after empty shelf, I felt myself growing increasingly anxious. We have…

The song playing in Target will tell you “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, but you might feel like screeching back “For who?” A light up display on Santa’s belly in Kmart will tell you how many sleeps are left, but to you it…

Recently, while driving back home at the end of a beach holiday, our eight-year-old sighed deeply in the back seat and said, “I can’t wait until I’m retired”. My husband and I burst out laughing and asked him why he was in such a desperate…