A spontaneous Christmas pudding is now my family tradition
Someone has to do it, says Jenna Price, as she lovingly pulls out the old Mixmaster and makes the Christmas pudding for yet another year
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Jenna Price
Jenna Price is a columnist for The Canberra Times and Daily Life, and a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Christmas highlights the pain of being estranged from your family
Still angry. Still so angry. These are the words of the men and women who have decided to distance themselves from their families.
Tom's kindergarten teacher kept his work from 2004 then left him this note on the eve of his final year exams
Mrs White walked up and down the streets last Sunday with a pile of letters from the past.
I'm an unlikely poster woman for weight loss
I'm still short, still overweight. Turns out you can cure one but not the other. But over a six year period, I've managed to keep off most of the weight I lost – and apparently that's unusual.