So with the reboot of Gilmore Girls making its way slowly (SO SLOWLY) to Netflix later this year, I have intensified my usual Gilmore Girls watching to new levels of sad. I used to be a recreational watcher, re-watching two or three (maybe four) seasons over the course of a year – that’s normal, right? […]
“Oh my god you’re HUGE!” Up there with touching the bump, commenting on the bump is one of the most irritating things to do to a pregnant woman. Why can’t we all just stick to “You look beautiful!” and move on with our day? When I first heard the phrase ‘bump-shaming,’ I had a private eye-roll, […]
It can easily happen.
On the surface of it many of us look like reasonably high functioning individuals. For example, I managed to secure a mortgage (35 years, BOO-YA) from a bank, a hospital allowed me to bring home a baby (18 years to life) and I’m contractually tied to another individual (for the foreseeable future) and yet while […]
Happy news for fathers-to-be, the Paternity Bill is to be formally published tomorrow, Monday the 20th of June and is expected to be introduced to the Dáil this Friday. Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald and Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar have celebrated Father’s Day with confirmation of the Paternity Bill. Delighted to announce publication […]
On Friday evening, a Colorado mother raced to her front garden after hearing screams and came upon a horrifying sight: Her 5-year-old son was being attacked by a mountain lion. The brave woman immediately ran at the animal and wrenched back one of its paws to discover that the boy’s entire head was inside the […]
Is there anything worse than someone in your vicinity on a health kick, or a juice cleanse or a detox or whatever the f*ck? There’s got to be nothing worse than an evangelical diet bore. All their crowing about clean living is not #inspiring me to better myself in any way, all it’s made me […]
Period Day One is like the mother of all disaster movies. Like most disaster movies it follows a set kind of formula; a normal day dawns and you innocently go about your daily business unaware (see point one) that a shitstorm of epic proportions is about to start raining fire and brimstone and hormones and […]
I love my mother but when it comes to certain topics she can be a bit like a rabid dog with a bone. I’ve come to realise that ignoring her is futile (anyone else’s mother miss call them 17 times in a row if they don’t pick up? Anyone???) The only thing I can do to […]
I was a teenager in the late 90s and I am still recovering from it. In many ways being a hideous teenager spared me a lot of grief. I didn’t lose my virginity until I was at least eighteen (and at last making my way out of the style wilderness of the 90s) I see […]
There are certain jobs that while we’re doing them, can seem a bit like life-sentences. Working a job you hate is good. This is important to remember while attempting to struggle through life. After a job you hate whatever happens next career-wise kinda seems like a step up no matter what. This is a good strategy […]