It’s like I’ve been drowning all my life and I’ve only just broken the surface, emerging for the first time as a person in my own right.
From borrowing books at the library to resisting peer pressure to watch the latest Disney movie, Nicole Rodwell shares the challenges of raising her 15-month daughter in a screen-free home.
“I’ve spent my life fighting for people to have dignity, peace of mind, and a fair shot at staying afloat and getting ahead.”
One of my favourite things about the Tour de France is watching and listening as fans all around the country unleash their excitement for bike racing; its highs and lows, its characters, the landscapes, and, above all, what events like this remind us about being human.
After an incident involving her daughter's safety, Adele had to ask her mother not to look after her young children anymore. It's a struggle to accept we're declining, she says.
When I asked my daughter what her friends at school said about her curry lunch, she responded: “they said I was lucky.”
It was 7.31am. The skies were insanely blue. I had walked back to her hospital room and taken a look out of the window. There was a beautiful jacaranda tree, its pale purple blooms standing in contrast to the spectacular cobalt sky.
Serena Williams has played down talk that she's the greatest female tennis player of all time after she clinched the year-end world number one spot.
I see myself reflected in the messy bun piled on her head, stained flannelette shirt and remnants of old nail polish on her toes.
It wasn’t just the making of the food, it was the stories she told me while we prepared it.
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