Archive for November, 2009

Genital surgery. Two words you don’t want to read in the same sentence.

Relax, people. It's a face. When I worked in magazines I got worked up for quite some time about the censorship requirements around vaginas. Unless anything... [read more]

Two reviews of Mamamia (the book, not the website or the musical)

In all the flurry of my book being released and the major overwhelm I went into (not bad overwhelm but overwhelm nonetheless), I didn't end up sharing any of... [read more]

The decade in 7mns

This is a video made by Newsweek. It is very US-centric but it's still an awesome reminder of the first decade of the noughties....

The 5 Most Stressful Things About Christmas

Tis the season to have a nervous breakdown. Seriously. There is no more stressful time of year and what makes it worse, I think, is how we’re all meant to... [read more]

Best/Worst Dressed

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Letter to a lover that never was

MM reader, Sara* wrote to me recently: "Hi Mia, I was going through my files and I found this letter I wrote to someone I was in love with for many years. I wrote... [read more]

ARIA awards

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Rachel Zoe is, like, Totally Freaking Out right now.

This was too good to bury in Cool Clips. There is a whole new audience of people obsessed with Rachel Zoe ever since her reality show started here and she became... [read more]

Need some inspiration? Meet Liesl Tesch

Liesl Tesch is one of the most positive women you could hope to meet. She was just 19 years old when she crashed her bicycle, falling two metres onto a cement... [read more]

Wishing wells (aka give me $$ instead of gifts). Modern or tacky?

Who knew you could have a wedding and ask your guests to bring you cash? That sounds like a lot of fun. Except do I have to have another wedding? Can't you people... [read more]