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Posted in Health on Oct 4th, 2011
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and knowing that it was coming up, I did pause for a split second when this message landed in my email inbox, via my Facebook account: In support of breast cancer awareness!! So we all remember last years game of writing bra color as your status?…..or the way we [...]
Posted in Charity, Environment, Family, Health, International, Media on Aug 1st, 2011
Babies are dying in the Horn of Africa. Their pitiful faces, and the faces of their mothers are being beamed into our living rooms; they are on the Internet and they are in our newspapers. We are hearing about this new drought, which is bringing famine as an unwelcome visitor to millions of Africans. According to UNICEF, [...]
Posted in Education, Family, Health, Ireland, Parenting, Society on Jul 14th, 2011
A very brave girl recently posted her experiences of being bullied on the SpunOut.ie website under the heading “True life: Even if this only helps one person, it will still be worth it.” She describes a lifetime filled with sadness and horror. Tormented by bullies from the age of four, she felt unable to turn [...]
Posted in Food, Health, Saturday Dish on May 28th, 2011
I’m not a big fan of dieting (who is?) but I do get a little thrill when I can find a way to make my favorite comfort foods a lot healthier. Whether it’s lasagna or burgers, comfort foods are generally great for the soul but terrible for the waistline. After a few experiments, I figured [...]
Posted in Food, Health, Saturday Dish on May 21st, 2011
I’ve been vegetarian for almost 9 years, but before that I was such a picky eater that I a) didn’t like cheese b) had never tasted tomato soup c) was scared of baked beans and d) couldn’t contemplate the thought of pizza (see: cheese issues). Thankfully, my palate has been forced to evolve since then, [...]
Posted in Family, Health, Parenting, Personal on Apr 14th, 2011
In her how-to-be-a-writer book, Bird By Bird, the American author Anne Lamott has a section called ‘Publication – and other reasons to write’. My favourite chapter within this section is one that I hadn’t ever thought about until I read the book a decade ago: ‘Writing a present’. Lamott, who writes funny, true fiction and [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Family, Food, Health, Parenting on Apr 11th, 2011
It came out of the blue. At a family Sunday lunch in a local trattoria, my eight year old daughter made an announcement; “I want to be a thin girl”. Her dad and I exchanged significant glances. Where was this coming from? Food, weight and dieting have never been an issue in our house. We [...]
Posted in Beauty, Blast From the Past, Body image, Family, Health, Personal, Sex, Uncategorized, Women on Apr 6th, 2011
When I was little and we got the giggles in ballet class, the teacher told one of the big girls off for saying we had laughed so hard that we “literally hosed ourselves”. We hadn’t, obviously. But then we hadn’t had sex, been pregnant, given birth to children, or had hysterectomies yet either. Nowadays, one [...]
Posted in Charity, Family, Health, Personal on Mar 23rd, 2011
Jean Harrington on why she couldn’t consider buying a daffodil for Daffodil Day – until now… I’ve always been a great sport, and would consider myself an altruistic person. I have enthusiastically fundraised for different charities over the years, and partook in dinner dances, fun-days, table quizzes, sponsored fasts, sponsored walks and parachute jumps (just [...]
A very charming middle-aged man of my acquaintance had been taking a statin to keep his cholesterol levels in check for some time. In all other ways he was fit and healthy but had been having some issues with apparent memory loss of late – forgetting where he put things, not remembering the simple words [...]
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