Fact: This body of mine is overweight. It is overweight because at this current point in time I don't exercise enough, drink too much and eat erratically. I think way too much about this body of mine. The marketing tells me that I don't think about it enough.This body...

I often comment that some people are born to be an inspiration, and others, a lesson.I definitely fall into the lesson category.I don't think that I do any more daft stuff than anybody else, it's just that I tend to do it all at once and then tell everybody about...

The fact that it’s World Refugee Day and the US has pulled out of the UN Humans Rights Council is abominable.The fact that when Australia ratified the UN’s anti-torture protocol last year they specifically excluded our off-shore detention centres is abominable.The...

*Trigger warning - suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety* My feed last week was full of people talking about Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain’s deaths by suicide and encouraging people who are feeling suicidal or have suicidal ideation to reach out. To...

In a conversation recently, a friend said that she was finding the whole #metoo thing a very discomfiting experience. She noted that every time somebody spoke out, spoke publicly about the abuse they had experienced, or outed one of her celebrity crushes – she felt...

I see you in the magazines and on the internet and on posters and in movies and basically everywhere and I know that I don't know you at all even when I feel like I do.I know that being famous doesn't mean you're rich, and that being rich doesn't mean you are...

Dear Parent of Teens,A quick historical recap to start. As you know, teenagers were only invented in the post depression era, coming into their own post-WWII and were of course, they were American to start with.  The evolution of the teenager as we know them...

I'd like to start with the good news.  The world is more full of Yassmin Abdel-Magieds, Behrouz Boochanis and Magda Szubanskis than it is the spineless jerks that troll them.It's just that sometimes hate is spewed at us in so many different ways, from the mouths...

My seven year old daughter got her hair cut short on Friday afternoon. She's now rocking a super schmick pixie cut. She looks amazing.It wasn't something we suggested. She'd been thinking about it for a while before she asked to do it. She chose a style she'd seen on...

Death is a mysterious beast in the western world. We don't like to think about it, plan for it, and by no means can we be honest with our children about it.But the fact is, death is a fact of life. We don't know whether we are going to live until we are 101 or die...

A friend asked me recently what I thought of THIS article. Now I want you to be very clear that she only asked me because I am an EXCELLENT parent and never make mistakes.  I am such an excellent parent that my kids don't drink juice because that shit has sugar...