Maia Dunphy
The First Six Weeks
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...
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MAIA DUNPHY
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Maia Dunphy
Looking Forward
Many of us live in a perpetual state of anticipation; it’s often the looking forward that gets us through the day to day. Not necessarily...
Maia Dunphy
Too Much Information.
It occurred to me recently how obsessed with are with predictions. I don’t mean opportunistic fortune telling or nonsense soothsaying,...
Maia Dunphy
Memories Are Made Of This...
Humans have many design glitches (features that Apple would have taken three or four iPhone generations to iron out, but ones that our...
Maia Dunphy
Dry January
Three years ago this month, I partook of Dry January (do you partake in abstinence? Enlist? Maybe endure would be a better word). The...
Maia Dunphy
Plans
Somebody asked me about my plans for Christmas recently, and I balked; I’m not even ready for Autumn yet, never mind Winter, because I...
Maia Dunphy
Style
I’m planning a late summer holiday this month, and for the first time in my life, I don’t have the previously ubiquitous swimsuit/ bikini...
Maia Dunphy
Escapism
The concept of escape means different things to different people. To some, it might evoke thoughts of a holiday, half an hour with a cup...
Maia Dunphy
Happiness
Good news: Summer is the time of year when we are most likely to be at our happiest. Of course this fact doesn’t take anyone’s personal...
Maia Dunphy
Optimism
You can break all personality types down into one of three categories: glass half full, glass half empty, and WHAT THE HELL’S IN THIS...
Maia Dunphy
Friendship
It’s a funny thing friendship; it means different things to different people, and different things yet again at various stages of life....
Maia Dunphy
New Year's Resolutions
“New Year is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, friendly calls...
Maia Dunphy
Breaking the Festive Rules
They started back in September; even earlier in some cruel instances. The countdown to Christmas, ads and supermarket displays showing us...
Maia Dunphy
The Uncanny Valley
“The uncanny valley” - a term coined to describe the unsettling feeling of looking at a human face that doesn’t look quite right; think...
Maia Dunphy
Beauty Truths
"What is really important for a woman, more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining." If you’re wondering what great...
Maia Dunphy
The Things I Wish I'd Known About Motherhood
You might ask yourself, “who is she to pen a book on parenthood?”. Am I a doctor? No (well, I consider myself, like many others, to be...
Maia Dunphy
The disasters, triumphs and bliss of new babies.
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...
Maia Dunphy
Let's Talk About Fertility
I’ve never believed that youth is wasted on the young. If we were handed it back at a later stage, we’d be too cautious with it, too...
Maia Dunphy
Get Stuffed - Festive Fare
The last few years have seen an upsurge in “alternative Christmas dining”. As low-cost supermarkets bring in frozen lobsters for a tenner...
Maia Dunphy
Beach Bodies
At any given time, you can find the longest queues in the world in one of two places; a newly opened attraction at a theme park, and in...
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