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One Saturday morning, I accompanied my mum to the local market to do our weekly fruit and veg shop. Mum was still looking around when I…

Back in my native Austria, people don’t even bother to lock their front doors. So when I set off in the 1980s to backpack through the…

The day hadn’t got off to a great start. I was flying back to France from the UK after a friend’s funeral. I’d been living in…

I started law school in 1976. Gough Whitlam had abolished university fees, which meant a lot of older women who previously wouldn’t have been able to…

In 2024, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with leukaemia. I was 34. I had no symptoms (none!) and it came at the worst possible time, although there…

Years ago I was visiting Naples with my daughter. On our first day there, she was itching to go for a walk down to the port,…

On a trip to Cairns, I met an American man while scuba diving. We spent some whirlwind time together and, a few months later, I decided…

I grew up in the English countryside, watching Queer as Folk on TV and dreaming about the day I’d move to the city and get to…

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 and immediately had to have a single mastectomy. Told by the doctors I needed to wear very soft…

A couple of years ago, I decided to improve myself physically and mentally. I did that by setting a couple of new year’s resolutions. One was…