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Remember back in lockdown when we stayed in our houses, escaping only to the garden, if you had one? In the midst of it, all I wanted was out. To go to the grocery store, the coffee shop, the park. Wanted freedom. Security. Fearlessness. Normality. And then we had it. Lives…
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Last week, I asked people on social media to talk to me about work-life balance, because I don’t feel like I have any. I won’t go into the details of all my emotions, because to be honest, I’m still feeling them quite acutely. But I will say that I’ve recently gotten to a place…
I’ve just celebrated my 34th birthday. Leading up to the date, I had to work out several times whether I was turning 33, 34, or 35, because birthdays have lost their countdown appeal as I’ve aged, and I can’t keep on top of which year I’m celebrating anymore.
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I’ve just gotten home from a cold-water dip in the river, fingers are still a bit numb, even an hour later. Talking about swimming in cold water is one of my favourite conversations, but I rarely get the chance to write about it. To commemorate it being just over a year since I…
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What did you imagine your life to look like at 33? I thought I’d be living in a slum somewhere in the Global South. Or perhaps teaching in inner-city…
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I’ve always, always, desperately craved belonging. The earliest, most vivid memory of wanting to be part of a group was when I moved from Louisiana to…
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I am by no means a woman of trend. I really wish I were. But I don’t know much about music, very little about the latest tv shows, and definitely…
For the last couple of years, a little creeping thought has grown inside my head – starting as a tiny, slightly annoying menace, to a frightening…
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If you have ever listened to The Guilty Feminist, you would have heard the first segment of the show – I’m a feminist but. But I get my bikini line…
53. It’s the age a recent poll found people felt their sexiest. I listened to a brilliant episode of BBC Woman’s Hour where Emma Barnett read comments…
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