I experienced my first heartbreak as a young teen. Standing at the bus stop. Desolate. I pulled out my trusty Nokia 3310 and called dad. Bawling my eyes out –…

Dear Future Husband, I’ve often wondered what you’d be like. I even thought I’d met you before. A couple of times, in fact.   Other times, I’ve questioned whether marriage…

I grew up on some of Queensland’s most stunning beaches and coral reefs. A beach girl at my core, nothing feels more home than the deep blue. Sand. Salt. Tan…

  It’s no secret a lot of people exercise for aesthetic and physical reasons. However, rather than viewing exercise as a means of losing weight or ‘getting fit’, I prefer…

This week, changes to the NSW high school curriculum were announced, heralding a return to studying the ‘classic’ core subjects (think grammar, statistics, Shakespeare, World Wars) in greater depth. The…

As my thirtieth birthday draws perilously close, here are four things I wish I’d told my twenty-year-old self.   Figure out who you are…. and accept her   You’re gasping…

The business of being paid to cuddle strangers is growing. Seriously. For $60 to $100 an hour, you can hire a stranger to hold you in a close, platonic embrace….

In April last year, my big brother ‘Spinner’ lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.  I’m still not entirely sure where his nickname came from. I’ll be damned if I know…

Getting fit. Losing weight. Being healthy. These are all common New Year resolutions. The bad news? According to statistics the majority of people are unlikely to achieve them. However, if…

Some people turn to their religion to understand what happens to us after death. Some people rely on science. Some people probably don’t give it much thought at all. Regardless…