10+ hour, 26+ min ago   (863+ words) As told to Ann DeGrey. But they weren't disastrous either. It was the same old record. We just didn't spend enough time together, as we were both travelling a lot for work. But still, nothing could indicate the level of…...

17+ hour, 52+ min ago   (976+ words) When I was in Year 9, my mum had to do one of the hardest things a parent can do. She walked through the gates of my high school and told them she could no longer pay the fees. Mum taught…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1116+ words) This article was originally published in the substack The Mind And Times Of Greyson Ferguson. It has been republished here with permission. I could see my future, and I hated what I saw. Though it wasn't in front of me....

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (910+ words) I was 10 weeks into a digital marketing course with zero relevant work experience when I was given a homework task: build a LinkedIn profile. At the time, I had heard of LinkedIn - it was this shiny new social media platform…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1789+ words) This article was originally published in the Substack, The Happenstance. It has been republished here with permission. A couple of weeks ago, Jen Hamilton posted a video about getting things done around her house now that she doesn't have a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (805+ words) As told to Ann DeGrey When my latest book was published, I was warned I'd have trolls trying to tear it down with bad reviews. I had a few here and there, just some nasty words that were upsetting, but…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1013+ words) Thanks to our partner, Samsung Picture this: it's 6am on a Saturday. You've just woken up in your hot pink Juicy Couture tracksuit and wandered into your Nora Ephron-coded living room (complete with the irresistible interior charm of frilly curtains, stacks…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (966+ words) I'd always been the one cheated on — never the one doing the cheating. So when I blew up my decade-long relationship, it felt like I'd thrown my perfect life off a cliff. The truth was that our relationship had been…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1177+ words) A few months ago, a close friend invited us to lunch at their new home in Anglesea, on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. The house is near the beach and surrounded by tea-trees. It sounds like paradise. But for the third…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (653+ words) Earlier this year, I ended a three-year friendship. I had finally hit the equivalent of a "seven-year itch", where, for lack of a better word, I got the 'ick'. That's not to say we didn't have good times. We were…...