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My two daughters refuse to sleep without one: a bra. I don't get it! Isn't the night a wonderful opportunity to free your girls from their tight containment? I never wear my bra during the night. I just don't like to feel confined during the night. Wearing your bra at night is good for the...

I was working, blogging away, minding my own business when my eldest daughter declared in triumphant tones: 'Sybil and I aren't the only ones anymore who think you look like professor Trewlawney!' 'Huh?' 'My friend Mary thinks so too!' When I got the first report, about my similarity to this Harry Potter character, I of...

I'm a feedback junkie. Which is unfortunate, because I'm a mom. Moms don't usually get much feedback, except when things go wrong. Like when you have the audacity to skip doing the laundry for óne day, then the feedback starts pouring in. 'Where are my socks, Mom?! Didn't you do my laundry?!' and 'Honey, I...

According to T.S. Elliot April is the cruellest month. But for a lot of people, January gives April a run for its money! January: bleak, grey and empty Because January is the month that has Blue Monday in it. It's also the month when Winter has only just begun, and Spring is still far away....

I recently read a book about menopause, also known as The Change. I thought that books couldn't scare me anymore after reading Stephen King's 'Christine' about a car that's possessed. But this one did! Because The Change is out there, and it's coming for you and for me! Unless you're man of course. But even...

My dad died on April 26th. We knew he had cancer for 7 years, but he was doing well. Until suddenly he wasn't. It's been long enough I know he's gone, but I suddenly got this overwhelming feeling: 'I want him back! He's been long enough! Isn't it odd how the human mind works...  I...