Paul Catalanotto

Men have walked away from fiction

11 December 2025 12:49 am

Men have abandoned modern fiction in droves. Blame video games, movies, or social media if you must. However, the real…

A modest housing proposal?

22 September 2025 5:21 pm

Desperate times, desperate measures etc

Happy Unpaid Domestic Worker Day

12 May 2025 10:39 am

Or as the rest of the world calls it, Mother’s Day

What happened to the family home?

5 July 2023 5:30 am

Bring back backyards and rumpus rooms

So… You want to buy a house?!

24 June 2023 6:00 am

First, write down on paper the kind of house you want with the required number of rooms and toilets. Consider…

Knock-knock: offensive by nature

21 July 2022 10:00 am

Recently, someone told me a knock-knock joke, and I deemed it offensive and insensitive. The subject matter was itself not…

I made a go of ‘chest feeding’

27 June 2022 11:00 am

My wife and I had our first child recently, and I feared not pulling my weight in helping provide nourishment…