I find it distracting when double-decker buses, Mount Everest and other large objects, are used to illustrate measurement. […]
True Stories
My shopping cart never accommodated a popular, multi-colored, ring-shaped cereal. This extraordinary achievement came with a price—family dissent. […]
As we move towards Father’s Day, I thought it only fair to give equal shopping coverage to our […]
DIY. Another word for die? Do It Yourself. Either way, it sounds ominous. Prone to online shopping sprees, […]
Lying on a gurney as I exited the operating room, still wearing my paper underwear, it occurred to […]
I always wanted to be a teacher. I would line up my toys and make them do ‘good […]
Day 1 I awoke from my slumber with a bad cold this morning and, as I’m due to […]
One summer in the mid-1960s, I worked as a teenage nanny to three children: Helen aged nine, Brian […]
When Kellie pats the stool and asks me to pop up, I give her my I ain’t popped […]
Wet T-shirt With dark hair and electric eyes, he was popular in high school. Since I wasn’t, I […]
When he was younger, Johnny Depp got a tattoo for his fiancée which said ‘Winona forever’, and then […]
Somewhere in the periphery of my vision, something glinted. Said vision was focused on my mirror-image, so when […]
Something had been niggling at me. All holidays are different of course, but there was definitely a missing […]
I’m suddenly awake, blinking in the darkness. My black knickers covering the digital display of the radio have […]