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Thirteen: an awkward age by anyone's definition. But when adolescence is coupled with peer pressure and the elevated expectations of devout Southern Baptist parents, life can become something akin to multiple personality...

Thirteen: an awkward age by anyone's definition. But when adolescence is coupled with peer pressure and the elevated expectations of devout Southern Baptist parents, life can become something akin to multiple personality...

At almost every seaside hotel with a swimming pool there is always Jacuzzi in the vicinity. The warm bubbling water entices all weary travellers to relax in it. Who would have thought this almost cost me my son’s life?

Women’s Cooking Class (Translation: Wear your best clothes and bring your juiciest gossip)

The atmosphere on the minibus is tense. Quiet and unsmiling the guard slowly moves from person to person, scrutinising with unflinching eye each and every document, peering from passport to face to passport again.

The atmosphere on the minibus is tense. Quiet and unsmiling the guard slowly moves from person to person, scrutinising with unflinching eye each and every document, peering from passport to face to passport again.

In the middle of nowhere Mexico, my filling breaks. With no apparent cause, an upper back molar, which for many years has been an amalgamation of tooth, silver and white composite, cracks and crumbles.

I rise to the sounds of the street permeating through paper-thin walls. The mattress is thin in my $3-a-night room and the slumped ceiling is spotted with mould. My toilet is a mere hole in the floor where I squat...

I rise to the sounds of the street permeating through paper-thin walls. The mattress is thin in my $3-a-night room and the slumped ceiling is spotted with mould. My toilet is a mere hole in the floor where I squat...

Under a canoe in the middle of a lake. Fully clothed. That was where I didn’t want to be...