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Nicola Redhouse

Nicola Redhouse

Nicola Redhouse is a Melbourne writer and author of Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind.

In this day and age, the opportunities to embarrass oneself or view the embarrassment of others are legion.

I was embarrassed by a school mistake. But heart rates were normal without today’s madness

There are many things the digital age has delivered that make life better, but there is a cultural shift I am sure will send us all to the funny farm.

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Nicola Redhouse with her dog Arthur, who rules her house.

My dog Arthur is a despot and now I can’t put shoes on

My cavoodle does not like it if I close the door to the bathroom. He does not like it when he sees animals in TV shows. He will not cross the threshold of the front door unless I shake a bag of treats. I know I’m not alone in this problem.

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I found the best supermarket. It treats you like it’s a communist dictatorship

When it comes to Woolworths, Coles, Aldi or IGA – you think you want choice, but do you really?

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Palestinians attempt to get food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, on May 23.

When Israel acts shamefully, we Jews must be willing to be ashamed of it

One measure of our capacity to love Israel is our willingness to be ashamed of it when it acts shamefully – not because we hate it, but because we long for it to be better.

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Something wasn’t right, but I had absolutely no idea what it was.

My car kept making a thucka-thucka noise, but no one else could hear it

“What kind of noise?” Glen, the mechanic, asked me. “Like a hollow aluminium chain being dragged across a swamp,” I said. Glen did not reply.

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Mammograms: come for the health check, stay for the awkward conversation.

‘How did you get there?’ The awkward chats I’ve had while having a mammogram

When a stranger is wiping gel off your nipple, you definitely laugh at their jokes.

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Lower Templestowe’s hilly terrain has created some challenges for builders.

In my Frankenstein suburb, everything has spiralled out of control

In Lower Templestowe, it’s not uncommon to find yourself in a house where a bedroom springs out from a living room that can be accessed only by a spiral staircase.

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Some therapies can require months or years to do complex work.

Invest in alliances to end mental health merry-go-round

The current tick-box 10-session system is about as useful as a band-aid to a broken leg.

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