Book Review: Parlour Games for Modern Families

Many’s the evening in a suburban Australian home when Mum is watching Masterchef in the living room, Dad is whooping it up in front of the soccer in the family room, and the kids are variously installed in front of a computer, x-box, wii, playstation, DS or other electronic device.

Electronic saturation. Social isolation. Physical deprivation. Hmm. A little soul-destroying, isn’t it?

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Surviving Breast Cancer: Kay Leicht’s Story

For the final article in our series for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we meet Kay Leicht (pictured), a 53-year-old mother of three from Bexley, New South Wales, who is celebrating her tenth year of survival from breast cancer.

Kay’s breast cancer journey began in June 1999, and only 18 months later, she was diagnosed with an advanced form of the disease. At one stage Kay Leicht worried that she wouldn’t live to see her children grow up, but then a life saving new therapy gave her a future. Read more

Christmas Shopping Humbug

Should I mention it yet? That overwhelming word? Christmas?

Yesterday I went shopping which, like – never happens any more, being such a stupidly over-loaded (self-imposed) writeaholic. I went shopping for scary bits for our Halloween party on Saturday and for… da da da daaaaaa – Christmas.

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Ocsober Is Nearly Over!!

I put an exclamation point on the title of this article because I wanted to you to think I was really excited for Ocsober to be over and that I was rolling about on the floor, clutching at my throat, gagging for a shooter, gasping for a martini, choking for a lick of the edge of a salted magarita glass.

A month without a drop of alcohol is something many adults would never even contemplate and I must admit something to you – I didn’t think I could do it. Read more

Book Review: Who Do You Want to Be Today?

I have a secret. I want to be Trinny Woodall. I have a girl crush, yes I do – and it’s Trinny. Love her style, love her voice, love her elegance, frankness, energy and candour. Coupled with the luscious Susannah Constantine, this illustrious, fashion-busting couple have done it again – teaching ‘real’ women how to flaunt their fabulousness.

Who Do You Want to Be Today: Be Inspired to Dress Differently is a neat little tome that calls on us to take a peek outside our fashion comfort zones. For those of us on the fast (but exciting!) train to ‘middle age’ – it’s so easy to become complacent about what compromises our true style or become fixated on a style we can hide behind… one that perhaps doesn’t allow us to shine.

Of course, first impressions are important – not only for how people see us, but for how we express who we really are, and most of us are multi-faceted chameleons. While we probably understand our own style type – smart casual, urban, glamourpuss, tizzy – there is certainly an androgyne, ice queen or gamine in all of us somewhere. So why can’t we reflect more than one style?

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Mortals Beware! A Frightful Halloween Party

Lock your doors. On 31st October every year, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. Rustle up your goblins and ghouls, your witches and zombies, and concoct a cauldron-stirring Halloween party that will be the envy of the living… or the dead.

SETTING THE SPOOKY SCENE

Want to scare the socks off your party guests? Conjure a haunted mansion with just several metres of cheap organza fabric – in black, white and pumpkin orange. Read more

Women in Business: Kathy Forrest from Dutiful Daughters

Kathy Forrest (pictured) is Managing Director of a Sydney-based organisation called Dutiful Daughters, which provides aged-care to local communities delivering companionship, meal preparation, outings, personal care and 24 hour support for families.

After running a chain of publications and working in publishing for nearly ten years, Kathy became a practice manager at a radiology practice where she gained an interest in the health industry and completed a Diploma in Practice Management for medical business. Kathy now runs a business with heart and spends 24 hours a day thinking about the needs of other people. Read more

Thanks for the Mammaries: Interview with Sarah Darmody

Boobs. They’ve really got it all. Beauty, charm, nourishment, sex appeal, love. And cancer. Every day, 36 Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Thirty-six women. A day. And one in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime.

Astonishing statistics indeed, but what’s even more astonishing is the fact that breast cancer is on the rise. The number of women diagnosed in 1985 was 5,318. In 2002, this catapulted to 12,027. And that’s only the documented cases. By 2011, the total is expected to reach 14,818. Read more

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The Fashionista Fallout

This is the Fashionista Generation. Chalk it up to Gossip Girl or Next Top Model or all those banks who handed out credit cards like they were candy — whatever the reasons, designer labels have become a part of our culture. We use them to fit in, to stand out, to create a glow of status and power.

Girls use brands to look more mature and hip; their mothers, to look more youthful and hip. This makes the marketers very, very happy. Read more

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