I used to be a voracious magazine consumer. It started with Girlfriend and Dolly in my younger years, moved on to Cleo and Cosmo in my teenage years, and settled at Marie Claire and Shop ‘Til You Drop in my … not so teenage years.
I’d pore through the pages, taking in every fashion spread, every [...]
Mia Freedman (Australian magazine Madame, ex-editor of Cosmo and Dolly) raised an interesting – and infuriating – idea on her blog recently. The idea? Women who want to work and procreate are becoming greedy. They want all the benefits of having a job (say, a sense of self-satisfaction and an income) as well as the [...]
It’s hot. Oh so hot. The weather has done the usual thing and bypassed spring all together and gone smack, sweaty bang into summer.
I hate it. I’ve lived here all my life and am still not used to the humidity. It honestly makes me want to just flop on the ground and cry. This is [...]
“Are you really going to eat that?”
I’ve heard this before. Plenty of times. Chances are you’ve heard it before too. Fat, skinny, in-between, we’ve all probably heard this sentence at some time in our life. Directed at us, directed at the person at the next table. It isn’t an exclusively female question, but the vast [...]
This week, my mother and I attended a Melbourne Cup function. We got all frocked and fascinatored up, put on our heels, ate and drank all day. Our table was in prime viewing location: right near the front entrance. This meant we could see everyone who came in and out of the venue. And there [...]
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