The birth of my children.
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Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗
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Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗
Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.
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