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The author and her newborn son.I turned 51 this year, and one of the many things I’ve learned over the course of five decades on this planet is that our dreams rarely manifest exactly as we envisioned them. We can spend years and years longing for something and then, when it finally arrives, we either don’t realise it or we’re disappointed because it doesn’t look quite the way we expected it to. I never dreamed that a “normal” family was in the cards for me. It was something that happened to other people. People who were better at finding themselves in the right places at the right times. People who weren’t so guarded with their hearts. People who

The author’s daughter Sammie in early 1999, roughly six months after being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.My daughter, Sammie, was three months shy of her second birthday when she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF). All I knew about CF at the time was that long ago, on my dad’s side of the family, a couple I never met lost two children t

A Tory MP has pleaded with her colleagues to just “leave” Boris Johnson “alone”, after the former prime minister was referred to police over further potential lockdown breaches.Speaking to Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme,Andrea Jenkyns said there was an “orchestrated campaign” against Johnson from within the Conservative Party.She also said her support for Rishi Sunak remaining party leader and PM in the run-up to the next election “depends on the polling”.Johnson appeared flustered when he was approached by Sky News at an airport in

Government plans to encourage supermarkets to impose price caps on food staples to help with the cost of living will have no “element of compulsion”, a cabinet minister has said.Downing Street is understood to be drawing up proposals that would seek to get retailers charging the lowest possible amount for some basic products like bread and milk.The opt-in scheme, modelled on a similar agreement in France, would allow supermarkets to select which items they would cap, the Sunday Telegraph reported.It could mark the biggest intervention on pricing since controls introduced by Edward Heath in the 1970s, the paper reported – though No 10 stressed any scheme would be voluntary.Asked about the proposals on the BB

Russia has has not yet begun acting “seriously” in Ukraine, Moscow’s ambassador to the UK has said.In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg On Sunday programme, Andrei Kelin warned there could still be “a new dimension” to the war.“It is a big idealistic mistake to think that Ukraine will prevail. Russia is 16 times bigger than Ukraine,” he said.“We have enormous resources and we haven’t just started yet to act very seriously.”Asked how long the war could go on for, Kelin said: “It depends on the escalation of war that is taking place.“Sooner or later this escalation might have a new dimension that we do not need and we do not want.”

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A young Asian woman is taking a lunch break and enjoying some Mexican tacos in an outdoor street food market. Street food concept.Enjoy smash burgers? We all do! But how about a smash burger taco? The latest culinary trend is taking over TikTok, with 6.8 mil

Taryn Delanie Smith's portrayal on TikTok of heaven’s receptionist, Denise, is as moving as it is funny. Taryn Delanie Smith, aka 2022’s Miss New York, said she was taking a shower one day when a ridiculous thought popped into her head.“Why are ghosts always in a nightgown?” Smith recalled to HuffPost over the phone. “Why are they always in a top hat or the outfit they died in? And then I was like, ‘Do you get to choose your ghost o

The author says she faces disapproval over her tattoos when she visits South Korea.A few weeks ago, during one of my regular visits back to Seoul, I stopped by the local mogyoktang for a routine deep-body scrub. I entered the bathhouse and went through standard protocol — disrobe, shower and soak. But as soon as I opened the glass doors and stepped onto the dark concrete floor of the bathing area, I co

Oftentimes, it’s the same fight you’ve had countless times before.It’s a rare divorce that doesn’t have some long-simmering anger and tension behind it. For most couples, arguments build up and soon enough, you’re one fight away from throwing up your hands and shouting, “I’ve had enough!”Recently, we asked divorced writers to share the one fight they consider the last straw in their marriages. See what they had to say below.The Fight About Therapy“Our last