thoughts on life

My visit to the Centre for Hope

Last month, on a holiday to the USA, we were fortunate to visit the Centre for Hope. It was a surprisingly wonderful, inspiring visit. I wasn't expecting that because...

Worrying about perfrection…

In my early twenties I attended a  training course to improve my skills working as a corporate trainer. I loved my job. I enjoyed working with people, and presenting to...

Can’t help myself…bad habits!

Oh I wish these blogs had an audio option! You'd hear this title in a Billy Fields swagger. I loved that song back in the 80's, and now, as January comes to a close I...

I have a human barometer.

I'm very lucky. Some would say, however, I'm very unlucky. One of my closest friends lives in Sweden, far far away. We only get to share a cuppa together once a year or...

Celebrating a good clause…

It has been a frantic week this week...I'm heading off on a Christmas holiday with my family, and for the first time ever we'll be experiencing a white Christmas...

the New days of the Old school yard…

There's one thing I would have in common with most school aged parents this week - attendance at an end of year school assembly. There are five children in total in our...

I’m not doing this alone…

At this time of the year we have an advent calendar strung up in our entrance hall. Each little bag holds something special inside, a yummy chocolate, a quote to think...

Celebrating a report card ‘F’.

It's almost the end of the school year and soon we will receive our boy's end of year report card. One  boy has just finished Year 7,and also completed NAPLAN this...

Five ways I’m learning to be a new me…

I'm really trying hard to live an honest and authentic life. All too often I slip back into my ego driven self, but when I have glimpses of living ego-less I feel like...