Unravelling

I’ve just moved house. It was exhausting and exhilarating. I sorted: keep, donate, sell. I packed: with the help of dear friends.  I moved: with the help of dear friends and a great moving company. I am unpacking: with the help of dear friends and a lot of personal...

What Do You Protect?

I just watched Southpaw, the movie about the boxer Billy Hope, played by Jake Gyllenhal.  What is striking in the movie – beyond his extraordinary muscular boxer’s physique – is the way his technique shifts from attacking and receiving the punches, to...

What, Where or Who is Home?

I have lived in a number of house & apartments, some with gardens, others without, some near a subway, others further into suburbia.  I have lived alone, I have lived with my former husband.  I have lived in a shared house with 6 other room-mates who stole my milk...

Steady She Goes

The stress continues to build in my life.  My house has now sold.  I have 7 weeks to find a new home for me, my three kids, my new au pair (who is arriving from France, 3 days after we close on this house), my 90lb rescue mutt, the guinea pig and the three fishes! I...

Friends Who Become Family

When I started having kids, in a city and country far from my family and place of birth it became clear to me that I needed to create my own family, wherever I was living.  My mother pointed out to me that if I was in London, my kids would be being looked after by...

10 Mistakes People Make When Trying to Change a Habit

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