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My Midlife Mayhem By Louisa Simmonds

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What Advice Would You Give Your Daughter As She Transitions Into Womanhood?

January 25, 2019

When I was growing up, I wish someone had told me to bury the past, to keep my eyes focused …

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How Do You Defrost A Turkey Quickly? Asking For A Friend

December 24, 2018

The red cabbage is out of the oven to the somewhat predictable retching noises from NC – proof that she …

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Are Women Just As Guilty Of Disempowering Men As They Are Of Avoiding The “Emotional Labor” Of Christmas?

December 18, 2018

‘But you enjoy it,’ the old man retorts defensively when I moan about him not chipping in with the organization …

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How To Cope With An Internet Outage With Millennials

November 6, 2018

My sympathies lie with the businesses that were affected by Telstra’s latest outage last week. My own family has been …

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Who Says Family Holidays Can’t Be Fun?

November 1, 2018

It was that time of year again last weekend. The family holiday 2018 had spun back around with all the …

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I Want “Cheese Lover and Wine Connaisseur” In My Eulogy

July 23, 2018

The old man and I went on a mini-break to a farmstead in the south of Sydney a few weeks …

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My Kids Will Be Able To Say A Lot Of Things About Me, But Never That I Didn’t Love them.

May 12, 2018

A friend asked me the other day about how I felt about Mothers Day, and I knew that the question …

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Cooking For A Family Of Dietary Heathens

April 7, 2018

Anyone who is responsible for cooking the evening meal knows what a mindfuck it is. It takes a lot of …

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The Curious Incident Of The Dog With The Pooey Ass

January 28, 2018

The Princess Spoodle’s birthday didn’t start well today. While the old man was out playing tennis, she had one of …

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The Prodigal Daughter Is Not Coming Home For Australia Day, She’s Coming To See Us

January 25, 2018

The prodigal daughter returns this weekend for the first time since she left the nest. While she assures me that …

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Christmas Day And Vodka Shots, Aussie-Style

December 28, 2017

It appears that all of those conversations I had with the kids before Christmas about WHAT NOT TO DO when …

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Gardening in Australia, AKA Dancing With Death

December 18, 2017

With forty-eight hours and thirty minutes to go, no, I’m not the teeniest bit nervous about the arrival of the …

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I’ll Even Miss Her Drinking My Wine. Maybe.

December 11, 2017

Its been a long and exhausting week since child number-one finally decided to leave the nest a few weeks before Christmas. …

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The Link Between Insomnia In Middle Age And The Boomerang Generation

October 23, 2017

Biologically-speaking, there is a proven link between sleep problems, peri-menopause, and menopause. It has something to do with the dying …

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