Working mums are often consumed with the pervasive underlying concern of whether they are making the right choices or not. Much of the stress is because there aren’t enough hours ...
Firstly, thank you to Female First for having me on here – I’m a longtime admirer of your blog and it’s always so inspirational and uplifting. So please keep up ...
With the whole world going through some, well, stuff right now, is it the wrong time to be joking around or is that precisely what we need? Is laughter ever ...
- I can still vividly remember the morning I fell in love with elephants. The sun had just risen above the distant hills and as it lit up the valley ...
- Having children is your choice. Not having children is a perfectly valid decision. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: not your family, not your friends, and certainly not complete ...
When gathering the sheep from the moors I have often looked down onto Ravenseat, sitting as it does in its little hollow, and been ‘tekken’ with the aura of contentment ...
Glenda Young’s latest gritty saga set in 1919 – Pearl of Pit Lane – is out now in paperback. It’s about a poverty-stricken young girl who tries to escape from ...
Cooking for yourself is a life skill, but is it something that your child should learn from a young age? The resounding answer is YES because it is not just ...
We Are the Hood, www.wearethehood.com, is a new, all female-founded British brand on a mission to ‘redesign the world with women in mind’. Founded by two passionate women, Maria Purcell ...
By Emily Horner @EmilyAMHorner International Woman's Day was Sunday March 8, 2020- which has been celebrated annually on this date since 1911. Leeds Literature Festival celebrated the day on their third ...
I'm an author who prefers to write in cafés. It's less lonely and the coffee is better. One morning not long ago, I was sitting in my local coffee-shop, when ...
For most part an author’s job is about sitting at the desk and just getting the words written down. It’s a solitary profession and I think being an only child ...
I deeply hate carrying things (see: I refused to wear my winter coat even though it’s winter in Chicago, because I didn’t want to carry it), so my backpack is ...
There are millions of reasons I could tell you why it is important to teach your child to read about autism. Nobody can even estimate how many autistic people there ...
I grew up in and around Brixton during the eighties and nineties, and I have very fond memories of my childhood. During this time there was a real sense of ...
I tend to be unconventional, so will skip the usual bumph about my happy childhood, subsequent misery as a complete misfit at a rather posh girls’ boarding school (Read ‘And ...
When people experience a bad breakup, divorce, death of a partner, abuse, or other traumatic events, the pain of those experiences can cause them to close off their hearts. This ...
By Andy Cope, happiness expert and author of The Little Book of Emotional Intelligence. Education has the ‘3 Rs’ and so does the science of happiness; ‘Relationships’, ‘Relationships’ & ‘Relationships’. ...
Almost 1 in 5 women under 30 are more likely to buy or do something for themselves in 2020, to “treat themselves” (23%) or to “feel empowered” (18%) according to ...
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, author Liv Arnold’s new steamy rom-com novel Etched in Stone has hit the shelves, and is as seductive and thrilling as its billionaire male ...
