Kate Bohdanowicz

I start teaching tomorrow. The thought scares me. It’s not specifically the teaching or the students - it’s the idea of once more diving into the unknown.

Until I left the newspaper last July,…

I had an operation this week. Nothing serious (she says while not dwelling on the ins and outs) but it required a general anaesthetic and so was not to be taken lightly.

It was at Whipps Cross…

I’ve been living in the past this week. First I interviewed three fascinating women in their 80s who left England just after the war having married American GIs. Some had regrets, others recalled happy…

Last year I left a national newspaper with great fanfare. I had a leaving do and a leaving lunch. I gave a speech and received a generous present as well as a mock-up of a front page. I was also banged…

The other day I was enjoying a leisurely lunch with two people who used to be journalist contacts of mine and are now friends. Since leaving our respective workplaces (one took voluntary redundancy,…