THE ART OF DEALING WITH SELF-ISOLATED LITTLE MONSTERS

I find it pretty awful when people try to reassure me that I’m a good parent right now. Instead of revelling in the words of praise, I recoil as I recall all the recent times I’ve nearly exploded, pushed by a child to the edge of quarantined sanity. Go ahead and #sourdough your way through […]

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WFH WITH KIDS? TRY ROLE REVERSAL TODAY

I’m not going to mince my words: my son has really been getting on my nerves over the last few days. I, like so many other adults out there right now, have been attempting to balance working from home with homeschooling during what’s arguably the biggest world crisis of my lifetime. This is not normal. […]

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POPPADOMS FOR BREAKFAST: THE PERILS OF THE WORKING-FROM-HOME DIET

A few days ago I stumbled across a trashy story about a woman in the States who gained forty pounds during her first year of working from home. If I’d bothered to delve deeper than the headline and look beyond the picture of a striking, slim woman who had no doubt since shifted the weight […]

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