Author: Jack Myers

06:00 A dawn chorus of Wham! will never be a great way to wake up; already I’m being reminded of the nightmare that was last Christmas. My sister is at her presents tooth and claw, and I get an unwrapped book. “It’s the thought that counts” reverberates until my ears bleed; but on a day […]

Finding out my parents had had an arranged marriage was a bit like finding out that Santa Claus wasn’t real.  The only difference was that I was eleven instead of seven, and that my mother didn’t understand why I was upset. Maybe it’s because I’m a girl, but the messages you usually get in today’s […]