Sunday Blog 145 – 21st July 2024 There’s nothing like hitting the open road, leaving the city behind. After much longer than I’d planned, I was back in the Q. Quairading. The previous visit was May 2022 when I managed to jag World Labyrinth Day. Did I mention Quairading has a labyrinth? Were you already …
Category Archives: Sunday Blog
Stars of the Future?
Sunday Blog 144 – 14th July 2024 By the time I was born, the sixth child in eight years (no multiples), my mother’s hair was grey. I mean, that makes sense right? Wouldn’t such a profusion of children dim the shine of most people’s hair? She’d started late for her generation – 29 when she …
Could I obsess over quality?
Sunday Blog 143 – 7th July 2024 Is it just me, or are podcast episodes by men always at least one hour long? I mean, who’s got the time? While the lovely Rangan Chatterjee’s Feel Better, Live More podcast has “bitesize” episodes that are just under twenty minutes, I listened to a whole one this …
Solo Mama Memories
Sunday Blog 142 – 30th June 2024 This week I’ve been submersing myself in the memoir edits (I’m revising my 2014 memoir, to get it up to the standard of my novella. Just play along with me!) My 2014 memoir skates right over the top of the reality of my life as a solo mama, …
Solstice Full Moon
Sunday Blog 141 – 23rd June 2024 Every time I walk a labyrinth, I think this time I will fully understand its elaborate geometry, its pattern of winding paths. It’s not a maze, it’s a single curved path into the centre, and out again. I walk around it as if I’m following the curves and …
Re-reading Jane Austen
Sunday Blog 140 – 16th June 2024 I’m guessing the very first time I read Pride and Prejudice (P&P) I was 16, when the excellent 1981 TV series first aired. I remember the copy we had in our family library. Our shelves were stuffed with classic fiction, poetry, and history. How I loved the small, …
Turning 59
Sunday blog 139 – 9th June 2024 It’s actually been a couple of weeks since my birthday, and I didn’t properly thank everyone who posted lovely messages on my birthday. Thank you. I love all that internet love, it’s the one day of the year when Facebook makes sense to me. The photo above is …
Reconciliation Week Reflections
Sunday Blog 138 – 2nd June 2024 This Reconciliation Week got me thinking about a conversation I had a few years ago. “I’ve experienced positive discrimination.” I said to an Aboriginal colleague. Positive discrimination, the white, middle-class privileged water that I swim in, and so often forget. I was thinking about a few times when …
Golden Hours at KSP Writers’ Centre
Sunday Blog 136 – 18th May 2024 I’ve got one more glorious week ahead of me at KSP Writers’ Centre, after an entire week immersed in this beautiful place. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) was an Australian writer and co-founder of the Australian Communist Party. …
Mother’s Day Melange
Sunday Blog 135 – 12th May 2024 Today was Mum’s first Mother’s Day since she moved into a residential aged care facility. How we had wanted to keep her in her own home, but it was not to be. So we did what we could to create a home-like morning tea. “I wish I could …