Growing up

Jul 7, 20184 min read

I was raised in a tower

I was raised in a tower, with a view from a narrow, single window. And I could not have been happier. This will come as a shock to my...

Oct 29, 20153 min read

One more wish on Hugh’s eleventh birthday

In the lead up to what should have been Hugh’s eleventh birthday, I find myself thinking about the barbed wire and the paddock. That’s...

Sep 20, 20153 min read

Tony’s sad-face – a lesson in life from my nine year old.

Tony Abbott probably feels like he falls into that last category. Browsing the Guardian online over my shoulder, Brydie notices one of...

Aug 11, 20155 min read

What Cecil the lion reminds me about setting the mood, homework and arguing with my spouse

Like Meanwhile, a Zimbabwean student in the US, Goodwell Nzou, wrote an article for the New York Times that caught my eye. “My mind was...

Aug 15, 20144 min read

Don’t make up your mind til you’ve read it

Also wrong: ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand. (How would they breathe?) America was not discovered by Christopher Columbus....

Mar 26, 20144 min read

A post about why you haven’t done that thing. You know. The one you want to do and haven&#82

Will power. Exceptionally unappealing in the two-year-old who has her shoe in your face and refuses to leave the carseat, but pretty...

Mar 6, 20143 min read

Girls: How to take a compliment

Girls cannot take a compliment. Like reading maps and weeing standing up, it just doesn’t seem to come naturally. (Okay, before you...

Feb 28, 20144 min read

How God answered my prayers for a hot husband, a fulfilling job and outstanding financial security…

The other day I disappeared down a rabbit hole into a biblical cyber-wonderland where I stumbled upon an intriguing website. It promised...

Feb 13, 20143 min read

Three things I’m glad I didn’t know on my honeymoon

You’d think this would be self-evident but still. We were young. Christian. As far as we were concerned honeymoon sex was the best sex...

Jan 11, 20142 min read

Who are you REALLY? The good news about self.

Sometimes I do those personality quizzes that tell you what kind of animal you are and I find out I’m a hippo with the head of squirrel...

Nov 2, 20134 min read

Stuff the facts: I’m not changing my mind and neither are you.

I’m a rational human being, right? Someone gives me the facts, I make up my mind, right? Actually, wrong… More and more research is...

Oct 28, 20133 min read

On luck, love and life after death

“Bury him deep in love. Bury him deep in love. Take him in, under your wing. Bury him deep in love.” These are words from a Jimmy...

Jul 20, 20134 min read

Turn it on… because it’s good for you.

I haven’t forgotten the feeling. My teacher had a silk-black Kawai upright and we were only allowed to play it after scrubbing our hands...

Jun 11, 20134 min read

Don’t make me kill you: choosing to tame your inner animal

“Don’t make me kill you…” The Look clearly said. You know the one. And I wasn’t even close to her child at the time, honestly. But...

Apr 27, 20133 min read

Get the F*K out of my pool and other personal development concepts

Hipsters. I thought they were just a variety of undies until fairly recently. Nuh. Apparently they’re effortlessly cool urban...

Dec 31, 20123 min read

Time, Love and Talking about Sandy Hook

Jem and Brydie have chosen kittens and puppies wearing Santa hats for the Christmas cards they’re giving to all their friends at school....