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I Won't Beat Every System.
I Keep Showing Up Anyway.
"Being the one who stays, the one who keeps showing up, the one who says, we're here, and we're not walking away, means more than most people will ever understand."
Channy Ryan, co-founder of Spear & Arrow, on the real cost of building a business that supports children and families across regional Australia — and why she keeps choosing the hard road.
Read Issue 85 →Why Is the Sky Blue?
Once upon a time, we were all little adventurers, wide-eyed and full of wonder, constantly asking why. Somewhere along the way, many of us grew quiet.
Henrietta Lacks, the Woman Behind the Most Important Cells in Modern Medicine
She never knew her cells would outlive her by 75 years and counting. Her family found out almost by accident, decades later.
Financial Autonomy at Midlife: Why You Need to Know Your Numbers
Sovereignty means nothing without the capacity to be independent. Michelle Wollaston on the women who arrange their entire lives around not knowing what they own.
The Year of Miracles — Reviewed by Pat Allchorne
What do you do when someone you love has died, and you long for the normality you had grown used to? You look for miracles.
Daniella Álvarez, the Beauty Queen Who Redefined Strength
A routine surgery cost her a leg. She has spent every year since proving that didn't cost her anything else.
The Hawthorne House Manuscript Affair & Far Too Much Herbal Tea
Eight writers, one locked study, and a stolen manuscript worth millions — everyone had a reason to want it, and almost everyone tried.
Luxury: Ancient Roots, a Modern Understanding
The word luxury comes from the Latin root lux, meaning light. Kalen Olson on remembering what it meant before it meant excess.
That Dish Doesn't Come From Where You Think It Does: The Sequel
Mike Devlin is back with passport stamps and an even bigger list of dishes that aren't from where you've been told they're from.
Plans, Panics, and Passport Stamps
A practical, slightly chaotic guide to building an itinerary that leaves room for magic.
How to Introduce a New Cat to Your Resident Cat
Cats are creatures of habit. Here's how to introduce a newcomer without starting a turf war.
Dignity in Dementia: Fiona Kent's Journey as a Young Carer
She was 14 when her father's accident took four years of his memory — and the rest of her childhood with it.
Mystery in the Laundry Basket: Kindred Keri on a T-Shirt That Isn't Hers
A reader keeps finding a woman's t-shirt that doesn't belong to her, her husband denies knowing anything, and no one else will claim it.
Sara Wahedi, the Woman Using Technology to Keep Hope Alive in Afghanistan
She built a tool that could help save lives, with £2,000 of her own savings and a personal reason no one should have had to have.
How Screen Time and Bedroom Tech Habits Impact Mental Health
Blue light, doom-scrolling, and the bedroom habits working against your sleep.
What's Going On Down There? A Guide to Your Garden Soil
Sandy, clay, or loamy gold — how to turn blah dirt into plant paradise.
Sportswomen We Have Lost in the Last Two Years
Some were trailblazers, others pioneers, but all will be missed. Here are just a few of those we had to say goodnight to.
Book Club (2018), Turning the Rom-Com World Upside Down
Four screen legends, one scandalous reading choice, and a film that refuses to apologise for desire after sixty.
A Six-Card Reading for the First Week of April
From naming the ache, to the quiet effort, to finally putting it all together.
Katische Haberfield on The Infinite Life: Past Lives, Channelling, and What Happens After
Documented spiritual awakenings, regression sessions, and conversations with people whose work offers grounded, lived wisdom.
Issue 94 — It's Invisible Work. And It Never Switches Off.
Lauren Robinson on the invisible mental load of parenting a child with allergies — and the tools she built so children don't have to find the words alone.
Pat Allchorne's
Best Reads
Five books. Every month. Chosen by a woman who has spent her life surrounded by them. Pat Allchorne ran a 40,000-book shop for nearly twenty years — now she reads for the joy of it, and shares what she finds with DWC readers around the world.
"A book left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing — but also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life."
For nearly 20 years Pat ran a second-hand bookshop in Warrington — over 40,000 books on every subject imaginable. Now retired, she reads with the same joy she always has, especially when she discovers new authors.favourite book?