Brianna Parkins: The kid question is not really a straight request for information. It’s asking someone ‘please justify to me why your life does not look like mine’
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His face remains unimpressed on the red carpet, in press interviews and meeting members of the British royal family
Home might not be quiet or relaxing or emotionally stable but it’s still where I sleep best
The cleaning guru has given up on her teachings since becoming a mother. It’s time we bring back display cabinets filled with treasures
He doesn’t pull out his phone at a family gathering and subject the room to videos about cryptocurrency or his golf swing, but he will happily share his favourite YouTube clips about how planes land
Brianna Parkins: It’s any wonder women aren’t all screaming them into the void over the situation
It feels there’s been a gradual shift away from challenging bad behaviour in person
The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk
Beware of the constant fear in Ireland of telling someone bad news. For example, instead of saying a restaurant is overbooked a manager might tell you they can find a table ‘in a bit’
I have failed to get more than five hours of sleep a night since November. Enter: the British royals
Brianna Parkins: I’m on a slippery slope to becoming my grandmother, who has both her own room and a fierce loyalty to Lady Di
We already have a plausible explanation for Kate Middleton’s absence from UK public life: she’s playing drums with Slipknot
The usual research has been trotted out to back up marriage as the superior family structure, blurring the lines between causation and correlation
Brianna Parkins: It’s tiring hearing your inner voice say ‘do better’ every time you see a fitness blogger’s fridge or someone you went to school with go on a fancy holiday
One financial advice columnist didn’t think it could happen to her. Then it did
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