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 …
Tag Archives: Writing
Beautiful Carmel-by-the-sea
Sunday Blog 171 – 9th Feb 2025 “Hands up if you rang your family to tell them you had no business coming to this writing retreat.” This question was posed to us on Tuesday, the morning of the first full day of the very last Carmel Writing Retreat run by Linda Sivertsen that I have …
Shedding my skin
Sunday Blog 170 – 2nd Feb 2025 It has come to my attention that the Chinese New Year 2025 kicked off 29th January-and it’s the Year of the Wood Snake. I am a Wood Snake, indeed a woman entering her third act of her life this year. There’s going to be some shedding. Here’s me …
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 …
Permission to be cringe-worthy
Sunday Blog 160 – 24th November 2024 The Blind Boy podcast I listened to last weekend dug into the topic of cringe. That when you try out things creatively, it’s cringeworthy. Because it is. And over time, it might become good, but first, there must be cringe. My family of origin, like so many, was …
Travelling alone but together
Sunday Blog 156 – 20th October 2024 When I landed in New York on the first of October, it was my very first visit to America. I’d meant go to an in-person yoga retreat with my favourite online USA teacher in 2020 but…the world had other ideas. I waited until 2024 and chose New York …
Love note to Limnisa
Sunday Blog 155 – 6th October 2024 I’m running a little behind–or is it a little ahead–in my Sunday blogs on this valedictory trip remembering my dear Mum. There’s a bit of commuting going on. London. Athens. Limnisa. London. New York. That’s all since 18th September. As I’m in America now, it was already Sunday …
Early steps on the valedictory tour
Sunday Blog 153 – 22nd September 2024 One of the absolute wonders of travel to me is that I can be me, but somewhere far from home, if I just travel enough miles. And since Wednesday, I’ve travelled 17,000 kms/ 10,563 miles. The I, the Me that is housed in my body can find itself …
Goodbye darling Mum
Sunday Blog 151 – 1 September 2024 Almost to the very end of her long life, my mother, Bet, remained who she was, of sound mind. Funny, spunky, unpredictable. In the emergency department last week where she was being treated for her broken hip, she was next to a man who had imbibed a little …
Converging Threads
Sunday Blog 147 – 4th August 2024 I’m sitting here on the 23rd floor of my Brisbane Hotel, here for the Health Innovation Community conference. It’s only the pre-conference day and already my thoughts are broiling with ideas and inspiration. Today was all about early career researchers breaking into the digital health space. As one …