Sunday Blog 193 – 13th July 2025 What’s got my attention this week was an interview with Atul Gawande, one of my favourite clinician authors. Take, for example the first lines of the introduction his book, Being Mortal; I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. I …
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Information asymmetry is a thing…
Sunday Blog 192 – 6th July 2025 This will be my last spider bite blog, I promise. For those of you who may need closure, my spider bite wound is healing very well and I’ve eventually settled into the community nursing service after my bumpy start. Perhaps next week will be the end of the …
The perfect patient mask slips
Sunday Blog 191 – 29th June 2025 Last Sunday I finished my blog praising the health system and intoning that my spider bite wound was healing. By Friday of this week I hobbled out of the non-profit organisation I’d been discharged to for my ongoing wound care. I clutched the back of my leg on …
Spider Bite
Sunday Blog 190 – 22nd June 2025 Somewhere on the night of 10th June 2025, a spider found its way into my bed. Perhaps I turned over and squashed it as it sought out its prey–other spiders if it was a White Tail Spider–which I suspect it was. Whatever, it bit the back of my …
Yoga is just one answer
Sunday Blog 189 – 15th June 2025 As I continue with the edits on my memoir, I want to share extracts with you, here and there. Especially when the editing intersects with my endless podcast listening, and there’s an insight that might be useful to you today. As I’m talking about my memoir, I’d like …
A lesson in longing
Sunday Blog 188 – 8th June 2025 In this post-birthday week I’ve been enjoying some guilt-free voucher purchases, and bought a copy of Hannah Kent’s memoir Always Home, Always Homesick. It’s a compelling book unpacking her student exchange experience in Iceland in 2003 which inspired her first novel, Burial Rites. The true story of the …
Milestone Celebrations
Sunday Blog 187 – 1 June 2025 I turned 60 on Tuesday, and my birthday week culminated with a party that has been in the making for some years, in my head at least. Gatherings in my house are a somewhat vexed issue as darling husband prefers a quiet life while I’m an extrovert. Our …
Best Days of our Life
Sunday Blog 186 – 25 May 2025 I plucked this quotation from the poem Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring from the podosphere this week. I was listening to something designed to settle me down for the night. But instead, I sat bolt upright and scribbled it down. The quotation landed, whole and perfect like an …
Journalling, and what it reveals…
Sunday Blog 185 – 18 May 2025 This week I tuned into a podcast all about memoir and journalling, just after returning from my recent Bali writing retreat. While there, I finished transcribing my 2006-2010 journal. (Procrastination about editing the memoir? How very dare you!) Among other things, the podcast episode highlighted that journalling can …
Long, bright shadow
Sunday Blog 184 – 11th May 2025 Sunday Blog 184 – 11th May 2025 Can a long, bright shadow be a thing? If so, that’s what my Mum cast over my life, leaving a trail of constructive kindness and unconditional acceptance. Not to mention whimsical remnants of 1940s teen slang such as “I’m all gog-wozzled” …