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Well, actually

Living a good life in a complex world

Well Actually

  • A person stands on a giant nose under a sky with clouds

    Are you breathing properly? How I found out I wasn’t

    You might think of breathing as automatic, but dysfunctional breathing can arise even if you’re healthy
  • Duck with a lifebuoy around its body

    Always in crisis mode? You might be catastrophizing – here’s how to stop

  • veggies

    How to start
    Start small, grow what you like and be realistic: how to start a vegetable garden

  • A woman scrapes her tounge

    ‘This is as important as your teeth’: are you skipping this key part of mouth hygiene?

  • A group works on an 18,240 piece Ravensburger puzzle for fun at the 2026 USA Jigsaw Nationals and Convention in Atlanta, Georgia March 29, 2026. Photo by Kendrick Brinson

    ‘They’re gonna make me cry’: I competed at a speed puzzling championship

  • Line of soldiers in camouflage uniforms, viewed from behind, slightly out of focus

    ‘Not unique to war’: millions of Americans suffer from moral injury. What’s causing it?

  • gif of text set against screen background of trees and sky

    I never text back – and it’s ruining my relationships

  • A silhouette of a young woman surrounded by swirling plastic sheets backlit by a golden sunset

    What to know about the controversial practice of ‘orgasmic meditation’

  • a woman blows her nose outside

    Yes, allergy season has already started. Here’s how to manage symptoms

Columns

  • a cadaver in a syringe

    Ask Ugly
    Would you use cadaver fat for a boob job or butt lift? Some people already do

  • Person looking out of a yellow-framed window in an illustration.

    Why am I like this?
    Try small steps and set the bar low: how to find the meaning of life

  • ‘For the time being, consider covering your spots with pimple patches or Band-Aids before you pick.’

    Ask Ugly
    I can’t stop picking at my pimples. How do I break this habit?

  • An illustration of a person cozied up under blankets

    Why am I like this?
    Feel your feelings and reconnect with past passions: how to recover from burnout

  • four images showing lips speaking, a person's ear, desks and a disco ball alongside various languages

    Don’t stop at Duolingo, set realistic goals, balance skills: how to start learning a new language

  • HOW TO START - STYLE holasoyka

    ‘Dress for who you are’: how to start finding your personal style

  • a colorful graphic of people in various yoga poses

    ‘Truly accessible to everyone’: how to start yoga

  • An illustration depicting meditation, budgeting, therapy and running.

    How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new

Health & wellbeing

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markWhy aren’t Republicans thrilled by the fall in teen pregnancies?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Two woman holding a drink with their arms around each other.

    Why does alcohol make us both happy and miserable – and what else does it do to our minds and bodies?

  • Illustration

    Trying to conceive? Welcome to the worry-filled world of ‘trimester zero’

  • Group of pregnant women practising reformer pilates in a health club.

    ‘As soon as I left the first session I felt taller’: is reformer pilates as amazing – or awful – as they say?

Relationships

  • Illustration showing shopping carts as glasses filled with groceries on person's face

    You be the judge: should my girlfriend change the way she bags her supermarket shopping?

  • A man and woman smile at the camera as they wrap their arms around each other.

    Placeholder partners: are you ‘the one’ – or just being used as a stopgap?

  • illustration of child cradled in protective hands

    This is how we do it: ‘I love the idea of only knowing one person intimately for the rest of my life’

  • Kathering Scholes and Roger hugging one another near a fence under a blue sky in Launceston, Tasmania in 1982

    The moment I knew: in the Tasmanian wilderness, we lay next to each other in the dark. It felt like now or never

Food

  • Bowl of Rachel Roddy's penne with potato, cabbage, butter and cheese on a bowl. On a table.

    Rachel Roddy’s ‘high-ranking’ penne with potatoes, cabbage, butter and cheese – recipe

  • Tom Hunt's torta paesana chocolate tart topped with nuts on parchment paper.

    How to turn old bread into a brilliant Italian cake – recipe

  • Ravinder Bhogal's lime pickle roast chicken.

    Roast chicken, cheesy scones and a genius cocktail: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for cooking with lime pickle

  • Ideal candidate for leftover rice: Meera Sodha's congee. A bowl of Meera Sodha's leftover rice congee.

    What can I do with leftover rice?

  • April Fools Day text and funny glasses and pair of shoes with the laces tied together.2J0NRHN April Fools Day text and funny glasses and pair of shoes with the laces tied together.

    Crossword blog
    Crossword editor’s desk: April fooling is alive and well in crosswords

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,982

  • Quick crosswords
    Quick crossword No 17,455

  • Sudoku
    Sudoku 7,279 hard

  • Prize crosswords
    Prize crossword No 29,978

  • Killer sudoku
    Killer sudoku 1,017

  • Donna and Althea posing for a portrait, Donna wearing orange tinted sunglasses and Althea pointing at the camera

    The Saturday quiz
    What links Althea & Donna, Sean Paul and Ken Boothe? The Saturday quiz

  • HISTORY Navy 3National Archives handout image issued Tuesday June 21, 2005 of a portrait of Lord Nelson from a section of the Battle of the Nile plan dated 1 August 1798. History fans are being given the first-ever opportunity to see original journals, diaries and logs penned by Britain's most celebrated naval figures. The hand-written documents by captains James Cook and William Bligh and Admiral Lord Nelson are being displayed in a new exhibition opening tomorrow at the National Archives in Kew, south west London. See PA story HISTORY Navy. PRESS ASSOCIATION photo. Photo credit should read: The National Archives, Kew/PA

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a Navy admiral?

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