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Lifestyle: Life itself

All entries for Life itself

I'd like one of everything and coal for my enemies

Berna Cox | 11 December 2009

Berna Cox writes a Christmas letter to Santa, in which she asks for peace and goodwill and coal for queue jumpers... Read more

Live your childhood dreams

Berna Cox | 27 November 2009

Berna Cox talks about the 'sci-fi nerd' who showed courage and optimism in the face of a terminal cancer prognosis, and caught the attention of millions... Read more

Leavin’ on a jet plane

Berna Cox | 30 October 2009

Berna Cox nearly beat the lump in her throat at Dublin Airport, but the Irish mammy losing a child to emigration was defeated... Read more

Saying it with flowers is quiet eloquence

Berna Cox | 16 October 2009

Berna Cox writes that a giving someone a bunch of flowers — though a hackneyed gesture — is still a wonderful way to express affection... Read more

Advice to young lovers everywhere

Berna Cox | 02 October 2009

Berna Cox is celebrating 30 years of something approaching marital bliss — if she makes it through the week!... Read more

Other places just can't hold a candle to Emly

Berna Cox | 18 September 2009

Berna Cox is delighted that Emly is getting the reward it deserves, having saved her daughter from certain academic failure... Read more

The perks and perils of being the baby

Berna Cox | 04 September 2009

Berna Cox writes that far from being spoiled and petted, the youngest child in the family always gets a rough deal... Read more

The perks and perils of being the baby

Berna Cox | 04 September 2009

Berna Cox writes that far from being spoiled and petted, the youngest child in the family always gets a rough deal... Read more

Friends — the medicine of life — need to earn title

Berna Cox | 21 August 2009

Berna Cox ponders the meaning of a 'friend' on the internet and suggests that friends are more than cyber-buddies... Read more

Sometimes it's hard to be either a man or a woman

Berna Cox | 08 June 2009

Berna Cox on the spate of books that asks women to return to the model of the perfect housewife that existed in the 1950s — which is just not on in the modern world, she says. Sometimes it’s hard to... Read more

How to handle the housework

Berna Cox | 30 April 2009

Berna Cox takes a break from dusting and polishing to ponder on the merits of doing it at all. Housework, like many things, was better long ago. A fridge magnet I saw recently read ‘dull women have immaculate homes’. If... Read more

A recessionary Cox is truly for the birds

Berna Cox | 30 March 2009

Berna Cox has a strategy for coping with the recession — it's cheap, cheap cheap and involves a few of her feathered friends. If you’ve just lost your job or you’re stressed out about paying your bills, it’s of little... Read more

A case for some family planning

Berna Cox | 16 March 2009

Berna Cox writes that 'meeting the family' isn't so bad if you brief your other half about your family's little idiosyncrasies in advance. At a recent family celebration, one of the other half’s nephews visiting from the UK brought home... Read more

Pride really does come before a fall

Berna Cox | 27 February 2009

Berna Cox takes a tumble and wonders why people get so embarrassed over things that are out of their control. If the ground could have opened and swallowed me, it would have been a welcome relief. If there had been... Read more

Medical Miscellany

20 November 2008

This week's Medical Miscellany has a religious bent to it – due to the fact that your correspondent has recently been in the Holy Land. This has become quite a popular trip in recent times and indeed, Kerry GP Dr... Read more

The ailments of Honest Abe

Peter McCarthy | 08 November 2008

Peter McCarthy writes about a US cardiologist's theory that Abraham Lincoln may have suffered from multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B. Abraham Lincoln suffered from a rare genetic syndrome which accounted for his unusual appearance and he would likely have died... Read more

Trailer for sale or rent...or theft

Berna Cox | 12 September 2008

Berna Cox writes that thieves can take a lot more than simple possessions when they strike — leaving the victim feeling helpless. However, as bad as it is to be robbed, it's much worse when violence is used in the... Read more

Pick a man... any man! After all — you're over 30

Berna Cox | 25 June 2008

Berna Cox writes that the suggestion that women should settle for a man they don't love in order to have a family is just plain wrong. Generally speaking, when couples walk down the aisle or into the registry office, it’s... Read more

Cox: (n.) Pedant, word nerd

Berna Cox | 01 February 2008

Here’s a question for you. Take a little time to think about it and I’ll give you the answer at the end. What word is most commonly used by the medical profession? Here are a few hints: it’s a little... Read more

Éireann go breá- and in your face

Berna Cox | 18 January 2008

Charlie’s dead. But before you offer your condolences, nobody’s been bereaved. “Charlie’s dead” is a nice little euphemism us girls used among ourselves as a sort of secret code to let each other know that there was a bit of... Read more

Bringing the New Year to book

Berna Cox | 04 January 2008

This week, the first week of January, is possibly my favourite week of the year. I like the notion of new starts; new beginnings. I hate the months of November and December and I’m always heartily glad to see the... Read more

A passion to make junk 'feel' wanted

Berna Cox | 19 January 2007

Would you like to buy a prosthetic human eye (colour: blue)? Or a Lord and Lady title? Or what about a Manolo Blahnik Habitat VIP shoehorn? Or, given the medical theme here, what about Smiley Hospital Nurse Car Aerial Ball... Read more