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The Art of Doing Nothing: In Defence of a Lazy Weekend
Why staying indoors, wandering room to room and achieving nothing is a perfectly respectable weekend.
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Adjusted for Inflation: Fighting With Your Spouse About Money
One expensive holiday booking, one furious husband, and what money arguments in a marriage are really about.
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You Carry the Burden: On Diversity Training and Hidden Bias
A workplace session on inclusion, and the comment from a colleague that showed how little we know ourselves.
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Sirens and Then: The Sound of Living in San Francisco
Fire engines heard through noise-cancelling windows, and what that sound comes to mean when you live alone.
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Uniquely Yours: An Anniversary Nine Time Zones Apart
Nine years of marriage, much of it long distance, and an anniversary that ends before it has properly begun.
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Shopping Addiction: What 400 Square Feet of Stuff Taught Me
A friend’s studio packed to the ceiling, and the buying pattern I started noticing in everyone, myself included.
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I’m Not Alone: Speaking to a Room With Nobody in It for You
A speaking event with no friends or family in the audience, and the unexpected way the day turned around.
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Drowning: When You Become Everyone’s Sounding Board
Year-end chaos, endless requests to chat, and the quiet cost of being the person everyone leans on.
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Financially Independent by 35: How I Actually Did It
Debt free, two houses nearly paid off, and the obsessive saving habit that got me there before 35.
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Holidays and More of Me: A Long-Distance Marriage at Christmas
Nine years married, fourteen together, most of it in different countries. On planning the holidays around that.
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