I want to tell you about the happiest time of my life. But before I do, I want to talk about perspective. Life has crapped on me time and time and time again. People have crapped on me time and time and time again. And I often get asked how I stay so strong. How […]
Friends
A letter to my birth partner
Dear Kerry, You are my oldest and dearest friend. I can’t imagine my life without you. I think of you as a sister to me and of your mum as a second mum. Always have, always will. We grew up together. We held hands through playschool. We got in trouble together through primary school. We […]
Dear Emma: You can get through this…
Sometimes in life, it is easy to get swept up in a world, where you listen to snap judgements that people make about you, without really getting to know you. Gossip, rumours, “banter” and nasty things people say, can start to get under your skin after a while and you start to believe them. In […]
Dear Bully
Dear Bully, It’s sad that it has come to this. We could have been friends. We both have twins the same age and older children the same age. Our children are all friends, we see each other in the same social setting and share some of the same friends. But I’m not willing to be […]
Vomit Taxi Services
I recently went out for dinner to celebrate my birthday. My mum, my oldest friend and her mum, drove two hours north to spend it with me. I thought, rather than sit on a cold bus (which usually smells like wee) to the restaurant, let’s get a taxi! I’d recently memorized the number of a local […]