With our friends and family in the UK and Europe experiencing sub-zero temperatures and widespread snow, ice and blizzards, and us the subtropical heat of Brisbane, it stirred the question – would you rather be too hot or too cold? This question first came up when we were living in Adelaide. It was during the […]
Category: Everyday Inspiration
After finding a poem I love for my creativity journal, my next exercise was to write my own poem. Don’t overthink it. Just create an image or a moment with words. Remember, you are creative. Embrace that creativity and give it a go. In line with my most recent posts on my relationship with alcohol, […]
Last week I wrote about my ‘you are creative’ journal. The first page I turned to had me writing down one of my favourite quotes and this week I’m finding a poem I love. Of course there are lots of wonderful poems out there, If by Rudyard Kipling would be one of them. The children […]
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Be Inspired
Another birthday has zoomed by and a whole year since writing to myself. I took a moment to reflect on that post to see how I’m tracking a year on (thighs you still disappoint me but hopefully my latest push at the gym will trim you up. And liver, I’m not sure I’m ready to […]
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Bridging THAT Gap
Today I had the absolute privilege of spending my afternoon at an all female gathering, especially for women from diverse backgrounds. I was invited along by our multi-cultural advisor from work. As a mainstream white woman, my presence was welcomed to help support and encourage the women to engage and practice their English speaking skills while sharing […]
I can’t move my legs without pain; mainly when descending stairs or sitting down. A deep, muscular pain, rendering my legs heavy and shaky. A good pain apparently, of a self-inflicted nature, although she made me do it – with a wide, beautiful grin on her pretty, young face; she told me I wouldn’t be […]
Hi Rosemary, it’s been a while since you and I left Adelaide and headed off in opposite directions – you to Perth and me to Brisbane. It’s been a while too since we caught up over the phone so, we have just met for a virtual coffee – probably at the usual haunt. If we […]
If you could step into a machine that gave you more time, how would you structure your day? What would you write with this extra time? Not being a full-time writer but rather a full-time temp, my day is full to the brim of other tasks; preparing for my working day, the drive to and […]
Reinvent the Letter Format I’m cheating and hope you won’t mind? You see, I’m time poor at the moment and have decided that you absolutely won’t mind that I’ve linked this assignment to a post I wrote back in November 2014. It was actually a Blogging 101 assignment and the subject was my dream reader. […]
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It’s a Perfect Day
It’s raining; in fact it’s pouring with no evidence of snoring. There is no let up. Storms are lashing the east coast of Queensland heading southwards into NSW and beyond. There is flash flooding in places and the advice is to stay indoors so that’s exactly what I’m doing.
Waking the Wombat 