Just Another Missing Person

by Gillian McAllister

Is it not one of life’s truisms that anybody who feels the need to play devil’s advocate is seriously in need of a stiff gin and a shag? Get a life, she thinks caustically.

This is what happens when you grow up poor: whenever you let your guard down, you think everything is going to be taken from you.

Parenthood is beautiful, but hard, too. It’s tough to exist in the world when there is someone going about their business who you would die for.