mX Column: Virtually Together

I’m sitting on a plane to Sydney as I write, on my way to visit my bestie, V.
I don’t spend much time on planes these days, though V does.
He moved to Sydney for work a year ago, while his partner still lives and works in Melbourne.

They fly back and forth as often [...]

mX Column: Man-Hot vs. Girl-Hot

It’s all about new-season fashion as we hit the shops, inspired by last week’s L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival – but how much of what we see walking the runways during the shows will show up in our own wardrobes? And what will the men think of it all?

I’m wearing a dress today that I [...]

mX Column: Hand-in-hand

Nothing melts the heart quite like watching an elderly couple walking along hand-in-hand together.
I saw an octogenarian couple crossing Swanston Street the other day. They didn’t even look as though they could negotiate the street without one another. The husband had a walking stick, the wife a hunched back. They were clinging to each [...]

mX Column: Blind Dates? Bad News.

Despite the Austen-like images my moniker may conjure, I’m not much of a matchmaker.
I don’t believe in the ‘set up’, and especially not since one of my best friends, N. sent me on a blind date.
On paper, it should have worked perfectly.
He was cute, fun and intelligent, as promised. He even had just [...]