Porter met Chris O'Dowd at her 30th birthday party in Los Angeles in 2009. The duo eventually started dating and got engaged in December 2011 in Guernsey. The couple finally exchanged wedding vows at a three-day party in an intimate wedding ceremony in London in August 2012. Much ‘WAS’ funny.....but some parts were profoundly sad. If anyone is seriously dealing with grief ....it will be a challenge to not feel salt WAS added to your own wound.... O'Porter is a British writer and TV presenter. She happens to be married to Chris O'Dowd, the Irish actor, or O'Dowd is married to her. They have two young children and live in LA. audiobook listening, reading, writing, guns, ( NOT A FAN), politics, riots, racism, worrying about the vast amount of people around the world hurting, childcare, pet care, cigarettes, ( not a fan), living in Los Angeles, her British family, television and movies, and eye-opening insights about clothes, ( her points of view were quite interesting),

Snippets like 'Jesus, did I just write a paragraph about putting sunscreen on my kids? RIVETING STUFF' had me smiling. Her honesty around parenting is hilarious, she will have you in stitches.I enjoyed the rhythm of varied stories and emotions in this book — what’s not to like when a person is being true to who they are?—unflinchingly honest...funny, real, unguarded, but appropriate, goofy one minute, serious the next....and sincerely grounded in kindness and compassion for the world and people at large. However for me, the humour felt manufactured and there was so much repetition and contradiction that I found it hard to read this with any real pleasure. I have an odd relationship with motherhood. I've never had that relationship of this unconditional friendship, deep bond that you have with somebody, but I have it now with my son," she said. "So I know the feeling of what that relationship could be, I've just never had it . . . One of the traits that losing my mother really early did for me was it made me fiercely independent." Losing a Friend The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot’s curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached. but grief thoughts are never gone. It doesn’t mean every moment of the day people who are dealing with grief can’t function - it’s just that it’s there - never gone. Thoughts about the person we are grieving is there every single day. Time is a blessing....as time does heal...

Yet it shaped her. “It’s part of who I am. I can’t imagine a different existence without that terrible thing having happened to me. It makes you a certain kind of person when you begin life with the worst thing that could ever happen. It was devastating but it’s affected me positively – in the way I reach for things, in the way I cope, the way that I love, the way that I’m loyal.” In the same interaction, O'Porter also revealed she has an odd relationship with motherhood. Unfortunately, her mother passed away from breast cancer when she was seven. Her sadness is rationalised. She feels she was young enough to have “scraped through”. “It’s a different kind of grief. It’s an unexplainable gap in your life where you always wonder, but it’s not like I lost her when I was older and have someone to miss.” What should you expect? Tears, belly laughs and to come out the other side wanting Dawn O’Porter to be your best friend’ Marie ClaireLife in Pieces is a candid and very personal account, a reflective look at these strange days we now live in, through the eyes of a mother, wife and friend, through the eyes of the wonderfully honest and outspoken Dawn O’ Porter.

Because it's written in a very intimate way, it's very easy to read, and I found I raced through a bit more, and a bit more, until quite late at night. It's very much in blog-style writing, so accessible and day to day. It chops and changes a bit, so sometimes letters, sometimes a sort of mini column/essay, and even the odd recipe. I guess that sort of reflected what life was like, muddling from one thing to another within the same 4 walls day in day out. Dawn O’Porter has been thinking a lot about life. Mostly from a cupboard (and she’s definitely not hiding from her children). She purposely inhabits her mother’s style. “Since I’ve become a mum, I wear a lot of Eighties clothes, and I feel like I embody her sometimes in that way. I’ll get this weird feeling – ooh, that was almost a sensory memory of her – that wafts over me and disappears again. I know what I’m doing when I wear my Eighties clothes. I’m channelling her.” I’m reading and listening to several books, (others heavier in scope), .... but I was in in the mood for something light and bouncy — After the wedding ceremony, O'Dowd tweeted a photo of himself and Porter cuddling up in matching full-body sweatsuits, captioning, "Just married!!!!" Porter also shared the news with her fans, describing their wedding as a three-day love fest. She tweeted, "Twas a 3 day love fest. Sure, I have an amazing husband, but I also have the most smashing pals imaginable. It continues… #singsong.”O'Dowd and O'Porter live in Los Angeles with their two sons, Art O'Porter, born on 25 January 2015, and Valentine O'Porter, born on 1 July 2017. They have a cat named Lilu. They also had a dog, Potato, who recently died in January 2022.

Barely six months after having her eldest son Art, O'Porter wanted to write a book on women who do not have children. However, she discovered she couldn't ignore her newfound motherhood.Female friendships, family, marriage, sex, friends, parenting, cooking, eating, eating cooking, eating, drinking, ( margaritas, or wine: evening pandemic pleasure), a little marijuana & edibles, home activities for the kids, art projects with macaroni noodles, home schooling their boys ( boy, this must be hard to keep up during this pandemic), All the bits with the kids made me smile, and I think it's always reassuring to read about a mum who also feels inadequate at times and like they're getting everything wrong. I wish my littlest was younger and I could paint him all over.