Sunday Blog 213 – 14th December 2025 As promised, I’m back on the planning horse for 2026. The year hasn’t even finished, there are still goals I’m hoping to achieve before New Year’s Eve rolls around, and already, the 2025 year’s post-mortem is racing down the track, leaving my quieter, introspective self choking in its …
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Walk in Jarvis Park
Sunday Blog 212 – 7 December 2025 I’m sticking close to home this weekend. After last week’s big effort running a neighbourhood event, I’m trying on “being in the moment” for size. On an evening walk this week, I allowed myself to notice what I saw, heard and felt at a local park, called Jarvis …
Big Events, Small Moments
Sunday Blog 211 – 30 November 2025 Since last week, when I outed myself for signing Tomorrow Me up for all the things Today Me wouldn’t want to do, progress has been, well, complicated. For one thing, one of my major volunteer events took place yesterday. Cooby Fest. It’s a local community event where we …
Tomorrow Me
Sunday Blog 210 – 23 November 2025 Let me introduce you to Tomorrow Me. Like Today Me, only better. Tomorrow Me is definitely going to enjoy doing all the things Today Me signed it up to do. Also, Tomorrow Me will smash these tasks in a twentieth of the time Today Me would take to …
Notes from our past selves
Sunday Blog 209 – 16th November 2025 Last week I noted that my mother was a diarist. She also obsessively catalogued her photos. Even, or perhaps especially the unflattering ones. Aesthetics were not her jam; it was all about capturing the moment. I have ended up with the floor to just-about-ceiling bookshelf stuffed with her …
Family threads
Sunday Blog 208 – 9th November 2025 My mother was a diarist. At the end of the day she sat at the kitchen table or perhaps on her comfortable armchair with her meal tray as a desk. She’d write about the intricate doings of each day in her week-to-a-page diary. What letters had arrived, phone …
Having a say
Sunday Blog 207 – 2nd November 2025 This Sunday Blog comes with a trigger warning. I’m going to talk about sexual assault so if that is not the right topic for you today, please scroll on. This week I had a major breakthrough with a stale writing goal. The kind that gets written out in …
27 Years Ago Today
(Almost) Sunday Blog 206 – 27th October 2025 I delayed the Sunday Blog to 27th October so I could marinade in all the twenty-sevens. Because twenty-seven years ago today in 1998 I was in labour in a birthing pool. And now, darling daughter is twenty-seven. (Or she will be tomorrow, because labour can take a …
Thursday’s child has far to go
Sunday Blog 205 – 19th October 2025 When we pulled into my suburb in Perth, on the drive home from the airport 19 days ago, my heart sank. It was all over. Ireland, Italy, France, Greece. Focusing on writing. Honing my European driving skills. All over. Such a whiny baby. How could I even give …
If you’re not alive, is it still your birthday?
Sunday Blog 204 – 12th October 2025 Asking for a friend. Or my dear departed dad I suppose. Not that he was particularly interested in birthdays while he was alive. Let’s say it wasn’t part of his family culture. He was one of eleven children in a family with few extra resources for birthday treats. …
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