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The Honesty Box

Lucy Handley

Tales from an unexpected midlife story by journalist Lucy Handley

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When You Have A Life-Changing Secret But You Don't Know How To Reveal It

I’m writing this post.

On separate lines.

With short sentences.

So you have a sense of anticipation.

For what comes next.

What I’m going to tell you.

Changed my life.

And it could change yours too.


But before I tell you anyth...

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Do the clothes work on the hanger, but not on you?

Some PJs I saw and loved this week. I didn’t try them on, but I suspect they’d fit…

I’m wondering who I’m going to be … next.

But before I go into that, thank you for being here, for however long it’s been since you signed up to this. I h...

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Mother earth, the roots; father sky, the wings

The orange and yellow flowers are osteospermum, or African daisies, in the garden of a retreat centre I stayed at last week

I’ll be honest. I want you to read this. I so desperately want you to read this. Because what’s the ‘point’ of writ...

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Do you look at your phone for the weather, instead of out of the WINDOW?

Oh to be obsessed with these little violas instead of the goods I ordered online!

OK so today the words of wisdom from the , a writing community I’m in, are: ‘Write what obsesses you.’

Right now, I am OBSESSED with whether my H&M order wi...

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This unstructured life

Nasturtiums going for it in my garden today. Wild and unstructured!

I am childfree and freelance and 48 (not 47 as it says in the intro if you’re reading this on email) and sometimes my days are unstructured as a result and sometimes I fee...

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    I am a freelance writer and journalist. My work has appeared in the Guardian, National Geographic, Time, CNBC and more. I’ve also ghost written an award-winning memoir and am working on my first book.

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