Delia Lloyd

Well, it's arrived. My first week in my new job.

After working for myself out of my home for five years, it's been really strange -- and exciting -- to re-immerse myself in an office culture. New people! A new building! New snack options!

I've spent most of the week...

On Monday I start a new job.

Alongside the relief that comes with accepting a job offer, there are inevitably a whole new set of concerns that crop up as well. In particular -- at least if you're like me -- you fear that once you embark upon...

As I intimated a few weeks back, I'm shortly to curtail my freelance career and go back to work full-time.

I've been looking for a job for a while now, so this turn of events is a huge weight off of my shoulders financially, emotionally and...

It's no secret that computers have changed our lives completely.

In the personal realm, we are more connected than ever before. We are sharing more ideas, "chatting" more with friends, and performing our lives out loud via constant status updates, even if, (paradoxically), we are also lonelier than...

Amid the flurry of research on happiness these days, it's easy to lose sight of another side of adulthood: Many of us all suffer from loneliness.

As a recent article in The Atlantic noted, various studies have shown loneliness rising drastically over a very short period...

Having just spent five days hiking up in England's glorious Lake District, I've got a newfound commitment to exercise. True, we spent a fair bit of our holiday touring pubs, napping and watching movies. But it was really invigorating to wake up every day and take a long...

I'm teaching a bunch of classes on blogging later today at a local university.

So I've spent the past 24 hours immersed in "the art of blogging."

One of the great things about teaching is that it forces you to reflect on all that you've learned about a...

I spent this morning at a cross-country race at my daughter's school, watching kids aged seven to eleven run their hearts out on Hampstead Heath.

I've had a change of heart recently about sports. As a die-hard drama geek growing up, I neither played a lot of sports...

Over on See Jen Write, blogger Jennifer Taylor posted a list of jobs she'd have if she couldn't be a writer. They included a forest ranger, a meteorologist, a TV news broadcaster, a librarian and a water slide tester. (Yup, that last one really does exist...

I read a great post yesterday on the online magazine The Tribe about why adults ought to read more children's books. The author argues that great children's books share much in common with great adult books in terms of plot, character and pacing. The difference is that because...

I've always been fascinated by attempts to document personality types. Part of that fascination surely stems from the fact that in another life, I'd be a psychotherapist. And part of it is that as I go about the networking process that is part and parcel of looking for...

One of the hallmark features of adulthood is believing that you have the means to better yourself. As you step outside the comfort zone of the home in which you were raised, part and parcel of your newfound freedom and responsibility is harnessing that independence towards making something of yourself.

Shortly after my son was born 11 years ago, a friend of mine -- the father of three much older kids -- asked me how I was doing. At that point, I think we'd moved safely into that phase where I was no longer feeding my son every three seconds,...

Well, it's that time of year again. The New Year rolls around and my inbox/RSS Feed/Facebook page is inundated with the resolutions of friends and strangers far and near: Lose five pounds! Run a marathon! Write that #$%@ novel!

I'm a big fan of making resolutions. (As those of us...

For the last four days, I've been down for the count. A horrible stomach virus swept through our household, claiming first my daughter, then my husband and myself (simultaneously) and then, finally, pulling my son down with us.

Unlike my daughter and my husband, who suffered a shorter, more violent...

Well, 'tis the season and all that good stuff. But if you're anything like me, you're not exactly gliding into the festivities this year, a glass of eggnog in one hand, some gift wrap in the other and a sprig of holly dangling playfully from your neck.

Rather, you've got...

In cruising the internet over the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the many things that caught my eye was an article by Zoe Williams in the Guardian suggesting that we should all ditch novels in favor of non-fiction.

Her argument basically boiled down to the claim that in dire,...

Lately, I've been struck by how much the nature of work seems to be changing right now.

Not just because of the seemingly endless recession that's sapping all of our jobs and igniting political and social change across the globe.

But also because the very definition of work...

Every so often you read a book or watch a film that you need to put down or look away from because it cuts too close to the bone.

So it was for me the other night when my husband and I finally finished watching the 1981 British...

Like many expats -- even journalists like myself -- there are certain scandals that erupt in American politics which you choose to ignore, hoping they will go away. After all, there's only so much room in your brain to process political developments on two continents (plus the rest of the...