‘Totally Fine (and other lies I’ve told myself): What my decade in grief taught me about life’ is coming soon… — Do you have a story that you are scared to tell? From today, you can pre-order mine. In the introduction, I called it ‘the story I don’t want to tell’. …

Stillness is a virtue — On Saturday morning I went to church. It’s unusual to see me outside of the house in the mornings, never mind at church. I was baptised Catholic (Irish mother), but I stopped going to church just before I should have had my confirmation and I’m not sure what that means…

Technology isn’t the problem we think it is — For some reason, working in PR requires you to have a lot of breakfast meetings. I wasn’t a very good PR, but there was one reason in particular that made my time at a PR agency in New York so short: my hatred of breakfast meetings. …

My boobs taught me an important lesson in patience — This was originally published in May 2020 in my newsletter, The Tiff Weekly. There’s been a lot of talk, including from me, about how we want to re-enter the world when this enforced collective pause is over. Some people are thinking big, like this piece that calls on us to…

I’m betraying women everywhere, but it’s too late for me, the damage has been done When I was a teenager at a competitive all-girls school, we all wanted to be thin, but there was the unspoken rule that you weren’t allowed to be seen to be trying to lose weight…

Life is better with a lot of Netflix When I was young, I loved watching television. I’d get home from school just in time for Neighbours, then I’d watch Home and Away, Hollyoaks, Eastenders and then whatever else was on until bedtime. …

Break the office rules and have some fun — As offices around the world are shutting down and telling employees to stay at home, there are all sorts of myths flying around about how best to work from home. The worst piece of advice I’ve seen is the one that tells you you need to get dressed. What’s the…

My very modest new year's resolution to help my phone addiction — What a relief that the “enforced communal relaxation” period is over. That’s what Anna Codrea-Rado called it in this week’s episode of Is This Working? where we talked about getting back into the swing of things after the holidays. This episode, like many of our others, is really about why…

Practical lessons to turn dating fatigue into a voyage of discovery — One year ago, I overheard a guy outside an event saying he was always the only single person at weddings. This immediately spoke to my single experience — meeting people in real life felt almost impossible. Dating apps should give us the opportunity for exciting encounters, but swipe fatigue is…