“But the fact remains that you’re not going to totally get over it. It’s just too big, too consequential. The pain will always be there. It’s one of the many rotten things about life: the way it becomes an accumulation of griefs, both big and small. But survivors – and sweetheart, you definitely fall into that […]
The Pursuit of Happiness Read More
A sense of being enormously grateful is very much on my mind this week. It’s a feeling that I often connect with, but even more so in this week as our country mourns the death of a young hero, Phillip Hughes. Like many people in my community of Macksville, NSW I know of his family
The luxury of niggling problems Read More
How often do you plan to work in the evening only to be seduced by sleep as you put a kid to bed? I had my first 2 kids in my 20s and it seemed easy to negotiate those witching hours, then return to my desk and punch out a uni. assignment, business plan, delegate
Are you doing the night shift? Read More
If you had all the time in the world what would you do? How would life be different? What would you be doing right now? TIME (or lack thereof) is the blame for so many things not getting done – particularly things for oneself. But the problem is, we DON’T have an infinite supply of
What do you need to do? Read More
Last week I did a lot of thinking about time. Time management, efficiency, not enough time, time for me and time for family. Time was a BIG, MASSIVE challenge for me last week, one of those weeks where I felt I could have cloned myself, added an extra 10 hours to each day and yet
Are you running against the clock? Read More
You know how those days leading into a trip away are chaos, you cram in so much that you’re lucky if you remember to eat and there are so many lists and things to do spinning around in your head that if you were to have a brain scan the doctor would probably be surprised
Step away from the computer Read More
I’ve been working a lot of late nights lately. With purpose and results. But I’m getting tired and really feeling the pull of needing time for myself and my family. So this morning I slept in a little. Knowing it’s one of my days to get the kids on the bus and realising that it’s
Morning routine, the school bus and a wild beast Read More
So… how many back up plans do you have? As a working mum I KNOW that you are used to thinking on your feet – ready to drop everything and run should a call come from school, pre-school or daycare, prepared with 100 tricks up your sleeve if your little dahling comes up with a
Plan A, B, C – alphabet Read More
Remember when talking about ‘binge drinking’ was a big deal in Australia? It was burned into my brain during the Rudd era, when the Federal anti-binge drinking campaign was launched and our media was utterly saturated with messages about how bad it was to bring children up in a house with drinking, ANY kind of
For goodness sake, just put it in a coffee cup Read More
I don’t know where this acronym FIGJAM actually came from but the first time I remember hearing it is in a movie that I saw in my youth… Was it Mel Gibson? Was it someone else, maybe you remember? Anyway? What I wish is that I took the acronym on board then and there, and