This column first appeared in the Sunday Times (here) on Sunday 21st May 2023. PULLING THE PLUG – By Paige Nick I’m in a hotel. Not the kind you’re probably picturing on hearing that. I don’t want to mislead you. There are different kinds of hotels. This one is a cheap airport hotel, in a…
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Co-cogitating: the perils and pluses
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times, here on 16th April 2023. Are you married? Cohabitating? Procrea-habitating, bickerating or just having a roomiemance? Call it whatever you want, when Gwyneth and Chris Paltrow consciously uncoupled, they changed relationship dialect forever. And if you’re single, you’re probably on your way out the door, but stick…
The Bird Architect
Jeanne Gang is a bird watcher stroke architect stroke smarty pants, stroke bee keeper. She has an architectural design firm in USA. Here’s the column I wrote for 42courses.com about the building she designed that helps save some of the 1 billion birds who fly into skyscrapers in N. America every year. It’s a building…
We’ll always have cabbage
This column appeared on page 64 of the October Taste Magazine I’m the eater in the family. Three of my sisters own restaurants and make catering on a massive scale look easy. And my mom is a wonderful cook, who made dinner for our oversized family of six kids, two adults and assorted friends and…
She Said He Said – Anniversaries
SHE SAID, HE SAID – ANNIVERSARIES This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 14 July 2019. He Said portion written by the wonderfully funny Jason Mykl Snyman. SHE SAID – By Paige Nick We’ve probably over-complicated things. There’s the anniversary of your first date. Oh wait, what about the first time you both…
It’s a set up
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 21 October 2018: IT’S A SET-UP – Paige Nick I’ve made a terrible mistake. I set up two good friends. I’ve since played the whole thing out in my head a million different ways, and I can’t find a single way this ends well. She is…
Disaster dates
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times Lifestyle on 26th August 2018. SUNDAY TIMES FUNNY, NOT FUNNY – Paige Nick I don’t know why I find dating disasters so funny. I’m either a through and through psychopath, or there’s nothing wrong with me and it’s simple self-preservation. Like that thing where if you…
Travel fomo: it’s a thing, people. And I have it bad
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 5 August 2018. ACCIDENTAL TOURIST – SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL FOMO By Paige Nick My father is an adventurer. A month ago, he spent two nights in a barely-anything by barely-anything-meter-squared hide, to watch bears mating in the wild. He was somewhere near Khumo, Finland, and otherwise…
Super Trumps Dating Game
This column first appeared here, in the Sunday Times on 10th June 2018. Here it is in its uncut form: SUPER TRUMPS DATING – By Paige Nick Dating online is many double-barrelled things; eye-opening, soul-destroying, time-sucking, and utterly hilariously-ludicrous. But the one thing it never is, is dull. I was recently swapping war stories with…
Disappearing act
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 17th December 2017 THE GREAT DISAPPEARING ACT – By Paige Nick Have you ever driven past an off-ramp and thought, what if I just took that exit and kept on driving? People do it all the time, especially at this time of year; tired, gatvol and…