Sunday Blog 98 – Sunday 20th August 2023 (It’s still Sunday in Frankfurt!) He was trying very hard to be diplomatic, in the face-to-face interview he was conducting with me for my final recruitment process to become a shelf stacker at Woolies. This was in 2022, when I was still trying to get the right …
Category Archives: Sunday Blog
Creativity tobogganing
Sunday Blog 97 – Sunday 13th August 2023 Forgive me because I can’t easily lay my hand on the link – but etched onto my memory is Liz Gilbert’s description of the creative process. Imagine being up the top of a steep incline, a cardboard box or a toboggan your only tool. Creativity is egging …
Not the day, not the hour
Sunday Blog 96 – 6th August 2023 I began the week with two cousins born in the same year, same month as me, and ended it with one. On Wednesday I was looking after my mother as per usual and heard the phone ring. As she always has it on speakerphone, I usually get to …
What are you going to make that mean?
Sunday Blog 95 – 30th July 2023 This Saturday I took time out to sit with my 2023 Vision Board I created in January with my Yoga teacher and a group of women. She had promised us a mid-year catch up to reflect on our year so far. Saturday was the day of reckoning. It’s …
Privacy or Secrecy?
Sunday Blog 94 – 23rd July 2023 This week I had the chance to give a talk about privacy from a consumer perspective, specifically about our state’s Privacy and Responsible Sharing Information Project and the forthcoming legislation. This legislation is yet to be revealed, much to my chagrin. I had a fantasy that drafting this …
Friendships through the decades
Sunday Blog 93 – 16th July 2023 To quote myself, (because frankly, no-one else is) Sometimes I think that all the wisdom of life is contained in E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End, which tackles money, death, friendship and class (among other things). Sunday Blog 37, 22 May 2022https://www.pipbrennan.com/blog/2022/05/23/outgoings-of-this-last-tremendous-tide/ What I loved about the way friendship …
Is it finished?
Sunday Blog 92 – 9th July 2023 I would hate to estimate when it was that I bumped into a woman I did coaching training with – let’s say for argument’s sake it was more than three years ago. She knew I had started a novel in about 2015 which was about the time we …
Housework
Sunday Blog 91 – 2nd July 2023 I’m up to the stage of submitting my novella manuscript to publishers (yay and eek all at once). I have been working on it for about eight years, so it’s quite the gear shift. I’m keeping myself connected to my writing practice by writing shorter pieces, looking for …
KSP Mini-Retreat
Sunday Blog 90 – 25th June 2023 Thursday feels gratifyingly far away and long ago now. I’ve even lost track of the days on this three-day, mini self-guided writing retreat at KSP. For the uninitiated, KSP stands for Katharine Susannah Prichard, one of Australia’s best-known authors. Born in 1883 in Fiji and raised in Victoria, …
Acts of discovery
Sunday Blog 89 – 18th June 2023 Last week was all about celebration – finishing the Emerging Writers Program and farewelling my mentor. Collecting my second prize certificate and winnings. Celebrating with a meal and a toast to creativity. And then, it’s onto the next thing. This week I’ve been putting together an application for …