Tag: sam wilson
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Let’s hear it, live & loud, for the good old-fashioned phone date
Let’s consider the alternative: a string of WhatsApps that would have taken hours of back and forths to communicate the kind of things we were sharing, and a number of emoticons and gifs which didn’t quite capture the nuances we could achieve with our voices.
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Why I’m giving up trying to cycle my way to success
‘Oh good!’ said our trail-biking manager. ‘Imagine? Someone who can’t ride a bike!’ ‘Ha, imagine,’ I said with a nervous laugh. ‘How pathetic?’
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The stupid little things that make me fall in love with you
I’ve written many columns on how much I love my husband, some so schmaltzy that I can’t even bear to link to them. Now I’ve been commissioned to write another: on falling in love, repeatedly, with the same person.
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9 Bold & Brave Ways to Make the World a Less Scary Place
I’ve been medicated for anxiety for over a decade, and I have always been pretty impressed by my handle on the issue. But pack on the immediacy and hopelessness of the world outlook at the moment, and even my anti-depressants are faltering.
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Ten surefire ways to crawl through to the end of the year
How do we get all the way to the end of the year, without finding ourselves snivelling in the foetal position come January 1?
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Why I Married a German, For Better or Wurst
When I first met Andreas at university, he didn’t seem very German. I knew he had a surname no one could pronounce, but he had worked hard on losing his accent and didn’t speak that much anyway.
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The Kitchen is Burning! Quick, Where’s my phone?
‘”Holy Moses, the kitchen’s on fire,” shouted my husband, as the glass cracked in the kitchen door and smoke started pouring in (I’m not sure I’m allowed to swear in these columns. But…he didn’t really say Holy Moses.)
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My Journey Towards Aligned Family Deliverables
‘I am not sure we’re all aligned as to the weekend deliverables,’ I said to my family over Saturday breakfast two weeks ago. ‘There may be conflicting agendas and I just want to make sure we are all on the same page and expectations are being managed.’
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An expert’s guide to chore chicken
It starts off with the small stuff – ignore that dirty cup in the sink until your partner washes up – but it escalates to billowing laundry baskets, drawers of unopened mail and terribly, terribly dodgy stuff at the back of the fridge.
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My 8 Rules for Surviving a Brave New World
Everything you say on social can be tracked. Add CCTV and Big Brother, the 1984 ‘watching presence’ is officially a real thing.