Sensitivity or Mental Illness? In our family, I was the overly sensitive one. Recently, I was rated high in intuition, feeling and perception, in a Myers-Briggs personality test. Fate had [...]
Swedish love coach, Carolin Dahlman, gave a presentation to our writers' group on the idea of networking in order to be published. Most of the large group of writers who [...]
I must tread carefully here... I have to be careful when discussing the concept of left versus right brained people, as I'm married to a scientist, who also happens to [...]
In the movie "The Great Beauty", the 2013 Italian film by Paolo Sorrentino, a tourist, after taking photos in Rome, collapses and dies. The message is clear: See Rome and [...]
I was recently advised by doctors that I should take statins to lower my blood cholesterol reading. The statins lowered my reading quickly to half what it was before. Originally [...]
When I was sixteen, a boyfriend said during one of our many debates on the existence or not of God: “What if we decided not to believe, and woke up [...]
Most people don't admit to being afraid; this refers especially to men. That's one of the reasons for the denial and stigmatising of mental illness. Showing vulnerable feelings is shameful [...]
“My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante, is a brilliant read, if somewhat elusive at the start. This mirrors the enigmatic aspect of the novelist herself: Who is she? Is part [...]
Meet the Author, HELEN O’NEILL, in conversation with Suzanne Leal Thursday 21 April 2016 6.30-8pm Waverley Library I attended an interesting conversation in 2016 at the Waverley Library, Bondi Junction, [...]
I've just had my review of My Year with Sammy by Libby Sommer published in the Quadrant Magazine under Reviews. The review is entitled "Retrieving A Childhood. I'm chuffed! The [...]
