The Good Life

The Good Life Where life feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside Hey there Reader, Right now, Ben and I are watching the second season of Dark Matter. The jury is still out on this season, with the exception of episode five, which I loved, but the premise still has its hook in me. Like many of us, there are major decisions in my life that I’ve looked back on, sometimes only fleetingly, sometimes more often, and wondered what would have happened if I, or someone else, had made a...

The Good Life Where life feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside Hey there Reader, Many years ago, not long after Ben and I got together, I had a moment of realisation that felt both comforting and terrible. For the first time in my life, I knew we would be together until one of us died. And that meant one day one of us would have to live without the other. This is, of course, the deal. As Dr Lucy Hone writes, loss is the price we pay for love and attachment. But death isn’t...

The Good Life Where life feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside Hey there Reader, Next month will mark 20 years since I stopped drinking alcohol. I don't miss it. By the time I stopped, it was causing more pain than pleasure. But before that, I loved to party. So did my then-husband. It would not be uncommon for us to go to the infamous China Inn for karaoke, and stay until the final song of the night was sung. One particular evening, we did not take this as an invitation to...

The Good Life Where life feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside Hey there Reader, At the beginning of the year, I had a habit that I just could not shake. Despite having a designated office space upstairs, with a perfectly good desk area, drawers full of stationery and aesthetically arranged bookshelves, I would invariably find myself draped in a half-reclining twist on the couch, positioned so that Winston could lie in my lap, where I would work for the next eight hours or so...