Sunday Blog 200 – 14th September 2025 Around about this time last week, I was forming a desperate resolve. Just 48 hours into my French writing retreat, I realised I couldn’t manage another seven days. There was a slim window of escape around 3pm when they were picking up the next retreat attendee from the …
Tag Archives: Travel
Father’s Day reflection
Sunday Blog 199 – 7th September 2025 I’ve been on the road since Friday 23rd August. I’ve flown across the world, driven hundreds of kilometres in Ireland, both in the Republic and Northern Ireland, then travelled to Italy for five days and am now in France. Two Sundays have gone by without a Sunday blog. …
Dates remembered
Sunday Blog 196 – 3rd August 2025 On the 3rd of August 1979, I was fourteen years old, and I’d never left Australia. I was about to head off for sixteen glorious weeks in Europe with my parents and my (plentiful) siblings. I flicked through the photo album from that time today, marinading in the …
Kalgoorlie dreaming
Sunday Blog 195 – 27th July 2025 This week I had a mini-break in the mining town of Kalgoorlie, a 6-hour train ride from Perth. Kalgoorlie was my home from age 8 months to 3 years. No, I don’t remember it really. But I also went on several work trips there in 1988 and 1989 …
Be here while you’re here
Sunday Blog 183 – 4th May 2025 Why does travel cast such a spell over me? Each time I travel, I imagine that this time, I’ll understand the mystery at last. Is the answer held in my body? The night before I travel I always remind myself that “it’s my last night in my own …
Post-retreat Retreat Pastiche
Sunday Blog 172 – 16th Feb 2025 “Your windows are super clean, Mum.” It was the sixth occasion I’d flicked on the windscreen wipers instead of the indicator while driving my daughter to Perth airport. She and I had a short window of overlap time between me returning from San Francisco and her heading to …
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 …
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, …
Every night I dream of India
Sunday Blog 159 – 17th November 2024 It’s been a bumpy, busy old two weeks since I returned from Rishikesh. And almost every one of those 14 nights, I’ve dreamed of India. Unusually active dreams with colours, sounds, sights of India. And lots of animals. Because I’ve been dreaming of India, does that mean I’ve …