When we moved to the US three years ago there were many changes to deal with. The expected upheaval caused by an overseas move and the emotional wrench of leaving home.
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Last year I wrote a post about my need to, at times, avoid the news. I find the horror and sadness too much to bear. So I keep myself aware, but often avoid the detail.
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I read the news today… Except, I didn’t. Because these days I generally don’t. I find the sadness and horror distressing and heart breaking. I find the bias and spin depressing and disheartening.
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Are women better parents than men? There is a very short answer to this question, which is of course, no. The more important issue, for me, is the presumption that lies behind the question.
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It’s a man’s world As a woman who worked in the construction industry for almost twenty years this is a phrase I have heard more times than I care to remember. It by turns irritates, depresses and amuses me.
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TV: could you live without it? The short answer is no! And, like I am about most things, I’m of the everything in moderation camp when it comes to the screens in our lives.
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I’m a girly girl. I love pink and purple; flowers and glitter. I favour twirly dresses, pretty shoes and pink fizz. I enjoy baking and decorating cupcakes. All of which, apparently, makes me a girl. I’m also an engineer, and
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When a former Government advisor in the UK, Paul Kirby, published a personal blog last week stating his view that the school day should be lengthened and holidays shortened, my twitter timeline was awash with strong views. Curious, as I
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In all honesty, there are many things that sadden me; we live in a world with huge inequalities, terrible poverty, fear and violence. In my own small corner of that world the thought of my children being hurt, emotionally or
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GuiltNoun…the fact or state of having committed an offence, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law…a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offence, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined…conduct involving the commission of such crimes,
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