My grandmother is 85 and when there is a funeral for people in her generation there is sadness, of course, but there are also phrases like, “He’s had a good run” or “he has lived a full life”. However, now in my 40’s I have found myself at more and more farewells where that just isn’t the case. A life that... Continue Reading →

Grace Tame today posted this open letter to Twitter. It is a must-read lesson in the way trauma presents itself for those who have lucky enough to have never had any. There is nothing I could say that sums it up any better. "To every media outlet who sought to discredit me by publishing THAT... Continue Reading →

(written on the eve of the 2020 US election)  I have been a political junkie for as long as I can remember. I was 8 when Bob Halke first got elected in Australia. I remember that election night being glued to the screen and really excited to find out that he had won. In the years... Continue Reading →

We might just be coming to the end of this two-year-long ordeal. We are tentatively heading back out into the sunshine after being in a virtual cave. I don't know about you but I would like to think I learned a few things while we were all confined.   Some people have lost so much. Not... Continue Reading →

I woke up on Saturday September 19 to my normal routine, morning coffee, trying to find the one sports sock that always goes missing in the wash before the kid has to play and of course checking the news. Mostly these days it’s ensuring that America hasn’t gone to war with someone or spontaneously combusted. Honestly after the last few months, none of those things... Continue Reading →

(written in August 2020 during the Covid crisis) I don’t know about you guys but I finally feel like we are seeing some sunshine through the fog that we have been living under for the last few months. Not that it’s over but just some little moments of real life are shining through. The one... Continue Reading →

Suddenly stuck in your house with no formal education training and having to teach your child. OMG …Me too. At the start of the coronavirus story being on the news who would have thought this is where we would be. Millions of people unemployed, the places you would normally go to socialise and relax are... Continue Reading →

(written in March 2020) Small steps 4 Hannah Tuesday February 18, started like any other day. We all did our normal week day routine. We got kids ready for school, got ready for work and went on about our day. During the course of the day however. There was a news story, the details of... Continue Reading →