My weekdays are spent working my day job as an Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreter and running my daughter around to drama classes, tennis lessons and play dates with friends. Once she’s in bed, I put my author hat on and hit the keyboard, working on my novels and growing my...
What I can say is Robyn’s mind is a wild place—believe me when I say it has created more than just me! But conceptually I was born much longer ago. You see, Robyn is a real geek for everything prehistoric, so when she concocted a friend, she modelled me on a real-life ancient...
I’m suddenly grateful that I spent so much time tending bar in the last few years. I can fill pints at the tap and mix most of these drinks in my sleep. It’s a damn good thing, because I can’t concentrate for shit right now. My attention keeps drifting back to the blonde woma...
“My mom tried to put me in piano lessons when I was a kid,” Emma says, but “I hated learning from someone else, you know?” In fact, mom bought Emma a piano as an incentive to take lessons. Didn’t work. “A couple of years later, I was playing around on it,” she reveal...
This summer of dance has been completely different for me to other years. I had intended to go to my annual tap intensive in Covent Garden as per usual, but I ended up with some sort of viral stiff neck that week (typical!) so I had to cancel and let my friend know I couldn’t ...
Lessons from Fukushima: Latest Findings of Thyroid Cancer after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident. Thyroid 2018, 28, 11–22. [CrossRef] 54. Alzahrani, A.S.; Alkhafaji, D.; Tuli, M.; Al-Hindi, H.; Sadiq, B. Bin Comparison of differentiated thyroid cancer in children and ...
4. I tap into my well of self-confidence and remind myself that what I am feeling is real, valid, and deserves attention even if it has no name. For more practical tips on coping with illness as an outlier check out my book Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your...