Experience in personal essays and opinion on lifestyle, culture, single-parenting, parenting, race, migrants, dating. Qualifications in business, accounting, computing, tech.
My Pregnancy Was A Nightmare. Here's What Every Expecting Mum Should Know.
Why do we pretend pregnancy is easy when it's not?
What George Michael meant to so many of us
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou was his name and he was born in London. Just like my father, George Michael’s father was a Greek-Cypriot migrant. Cyprus, a small yet important island, an aqua blue paradise in the Mediterranean that many powerful countries politically want a slice of.
After years as a single parent, how do you let in someone new?
The morning after sleeping with a man I know isn’t good for me, I feel exhausted and achy. My 7-year-old is due back from her dad’s any minute. Too many days' dishes are stacked in the sink, clothes and toys are strewn everywhere — and I start to tear up. My small apartment is just as disorganized, run-down and cluttered as the rest of my life.
My ex drops my daughter off and she’s hungry. I haven’t done the grocery shopping. She starts to yell at me: Why can’t I go shopping when she’s at Dad...
Why It's Better If Your Partner Is Friends With Their Ex
Before my current man, I had two long-term relationships that both ended in a similar fashion: we promised we’d stay friends, and we did, but as soon as the new woman came into the picture I was cut, just like that.
SEXPO: ‘You’re Greek, oh my God! Do your parents know you’re here?’
My account of being a Greek woman exhibiting at SEXPO
Tips for Traveling with Chronic Pain
It's estimated that chronic pain — generally defined as pain that lasts longer than 12 weeks — affects a staggering 100 million Americans. Globally, 10% of adults are newly diagnosed with chronic pain every year. For the millions upon millions of sufferers, the idea of traveling can be, to say the least, daunting.
My daughter wants to walk to school and I don't know what to tell her
"I am not going to lie – I’m scared."
On the afternoon of Eurydice’s vigil at Princes Park, I flew home after a week-long work trip in Sydney and picked up my daughter from school.
I missed her like crazy but every fibre of my being was telling me that I needed to be at the vigil, to stand with my community, not just for Eurydice, but for all women who had been raped or murdered at the hands of a man.
But I didn’t know how to explain to my primary school aged daughter why the time I had promi...
Why Roseanne cancellation was wrong
She should have stayed on air and her racism should have been addressed in her show which could have been used as a vehicle for change. She has a huge Trump support base who listen to what she says
Kim Kardashian chatting politics at the White House makes a mockery of America's democracy
Kardashian’s seeming influence in politics is troubling, especially since it was Trump’s celebrity status that gained him his seat. This spectacle only reinforces the idea that wealth and fame can buy you inordinate amounts of power
Women aren’t being warned about the dangers of Mirena IUDs
More research needs to be done into the Mirena IUD
Australia: Where even a school picnic is a piss-up
Parents brought along alcohol to a picnic on school grounds. Is this acceptable Australian behaviour?
Why I felt ashamed about shopping at the op shop
For Koraly Dimitriadis, buying items brand new was always tied to migrant success - until she discovered the hidden treasures at her local op shop.
I use sex to relieve my chronic headaches
Had I just found the key to my pain relief? Could sex actually be good for me as opposed to a sin or wrong unless married as it so taught by my Greek Orthodox culture?
Why moving house was more difficult and stressful than I ever imagined
Moving has been ranked one of the top five most stressful life events. Our house is symbolic of ourselves, our safe haven from the outside world, which is why it is so hard to leave and start all over again.