Today everything is against me. I press the pump on the soap dispenser but instead of landing on my hand, …
Oh, the guilt of motherhood
It’s yet another morning that I’m sitting in the daycare parking lot reciting things I’m grateful for (or at least …
How to approach the rage cleaning woman (and survive!)
I used to think that when the house got too dirty, my husband would take one look at it and …
Copywriters are only good for writing sales copy. Right?
Add-on selling, up-selling, cross-selling, focus-selling, match-selling, selling, selling, selling — that’s what copywriters do right? They write copy with the purpose of …
The photographs
I look at the photographs and try to remember how old I was when they were taken. I have short …
If you were a girl in Pakistan, your life would be unrecognisable
When I lived in Pakistan, the most striking difference to how I, the liberal Scandinavian, was raised was how the …
Sleep, oh sleep. Why won’t you fall asleep?
As the mother of a toddler, a significant portion of my day is spent rocking, swaying, bouncing, patting, swinging, shushing, …