I have been dealing with an ongoing medical issue for the past two months. Between the doctor and myself, we’re doing our best to handle it, and I have no strong reason, at this point, to think this has become a chronic illness. There has been some pain associated
Nearly every fat person I’ve known has wished that they could wake up one day and not be fat. Let me tell you… it’s not as wonderful as it sounds. I lost 45 kilograms over about eighteen months, almost entirely by accident. This isn't the story
As a teenager, once I got to seriously thinking about what I wanted to “be”, I knew I never wanted to be a teacher. My mother was a teacher. Her evenings and weekends were spent marking and planning, ringing parents, organising meetings outside of school time, spending her own money
I have spent the past two weeks of the school holidays travelling. I spent several days in London, although not the London most tourists see. I found myself tucked away in an obscure corner of Regent's Park, watching bureaucratic infighting inside one of the least glamorous branches of
I started swimming properly when Kaitaia's long-awaited indoor pool finally opened. Before that there was the old "summer pool" – euphemistically described as "solar heated" which, in Kaitaia, kind of worked. My kids loved it. I... didn't, really. Although there were dedicated