Sunday Blog 169 – 26th January 2025 For most of this week I’ve snuck off into a log cabin to work on edits of my memoir, prior to flying out to Carmel-by-the-Sea next week for a writing retreat. I wanted to take a better draft of the memoir there to work on. A retreat before …
Category Archives: Sunday Blog
Calculating anniversaries
Sunday Blog 168 – 19th January 2025 Is it just me that gets confused each and every year about which anniversary I’m celebrating? It’s the same conundrum every time January rolls around, and darling husband usually knocks off a year of wedded bliss. “The year you get married is year zero,” he’ll say, and that …
Cherry-picking from religion
Sunday Blog 167 – 12th January 2025 At the tender age of 14, my family’s tightly woven Catholic framework that had swaddled and coddled me loosened. The impetus for this was my eldest sister joining the Orange People. As I puzzled through all the culty aspects of the Rajneshees, I suddenly realised that the brand …
Incomplete list
Sunday Blog 166 – 5th January 2025 I spent the in between New Year space listening to Edith Eger’s memoir The Choice mainly because I thought it would provide my key to all mythologies I talked about in my last blog. It didn’t exactly-it was a gripping, beautifully written memoir more than boiled down list …
In between the years
Sunday Blog 165 – 29th December 2024 (I checked the date twice lol) This in-between Christmas and New Year time is one of my favourites of the year. I love how quickly the days melt away. How I have to check my calendar more than once to verify which day I’m on. It’s a time …
One more selfie
Sunday Blog 164 – 22nd December 2024 “I’ll go if you go,” we’d both said. The Christmas party at my mother’s residential aged care home was like all the events. Kindly meant, organised with care. Riven to the core with loss on the part of the residents, anticipatory grief on the part of the families …
Wordle Mini-lament
Sunday Blog 163 – 15th December 2024 Up until this week I could’ve told you how many days ago I landed in India. 50. That was the day I missed Wordle by losing five hours and several layers of my stomach lining through the stress of actually flying there there. (You may recall the muffed …
Resonant spaces
Sunday Blog 162 – 8th December 2024 Getting somewhere on time for me is often assisted when I have the arrival time noted as earlier than required. For example this week I had 12 in my diary for Christmas lunch, instead of the correct 1pm. That created a cheeky extra hour to wander around town, …
Trust begins at home
Sunday Blog 161 – 1st December 2024 Being a constant consumer of self-improvement, I’m always looking outside myself for advice. I am aware of the irony of writing a Sunday Blog about trust beginning with me. But isn’t self-development is an endless round of remembering, then forgetting, then remembering? A regular podcast reminder of the …
Permission to be cringe-worthy
Sunday Blog 160 – 24th November 2024 The Blind Boy podcast I listened to last weekend dug into the topic of cringe. That when you try out things creatively, it’s cringeworthy. Because it is. And over time, it might become good, but first, there must be cringe. My family of origin, like so many, was …