I had been pondering moving a shelf unit into my ‘office’ space for a while. Over the last couple of weeks I had the time but couldn’t thanks to my leg injury, until yesterday. With great joy and enthusiasm I embarked on making the change with a little helper who …
A couple of days ago, I had a flat moment and a minute amount of fear tried to sneak in. In conversation with one of my loved ones, I mentioned that one of the things that is scary about putting something I have written out there in the public forum …
Yesterday morning I had the oddest thing happen to me. I had a mild craving for something I had not consumed in many years; Vegemite. It was so bizarre. It didn’t take long though to realise what was actually going on. I wasn’t missing having this beloved Aussie spread at …
Just because I was overweight in childhood (in your eyes), just because I had freckles, just because I was shy, just because I didn’t cope with changes well, just because I didn’t follow your beliefs, just because I developed my own mind, just because I didn’t agree with the masses, …
It is amazing how the planets align. Yesterday I had two topics in front of me to write about; onions or kindness. Little did I know then that with my decision to do the piece on Onions that I would be writing today about kindness on World Kindness Day. Nor …
How easy is it to become an onion? Over our lifetime, as we grow, we accumulate roles, like the outer layers of an onion. We become a friend, a graduate, an employee, a partner, a parent, a mentor, a student, a coach, a grandparent and a myriad of other roles. …
‘Didn’t get the license plate’ was a tagline used some years ago with fair regularity. Often following was the ‘yep, been hit by a truck or two’ and sometimes ‘damn convoy!’ It was a time when chronic fatigue dictated the terms. Pain, unforgiving and indiscriminate, was predominantly the precursor to …
