Our heating conked out this morning. My mom always used to say that you can always judge the character of a person by the way they dealt with things going wrong in their life. My character is pants. I do not like the cold. At. All. Which is weird because I live in Melbourne. And…
Tag: life
A STORY OF MOTHERHOOD ON MOTHERS DAY
Happy Mother’s Day to all those women who have beautiful children prancing around the planet. May you have a beautiful soulful day. I have an app on my phone called Story Corps. I downloaded it ages ago. It is an app that helps you document every day life. It is an app that documents oral…
Book Review : Craft for the Soul
*First up, this is not in any way shape or form a sponsored post. This is simply my experience, which I hope, you the wonderful reader of my blog, will find interesting, and perhaps, too, a little uplifting.* Since becoming sober five and a bit years ago, I have been on a quest. A quest…
A NOMADIC LIFE OR TO SETTLE – THAT IS THE QUESTION
Oh my goodness, it is so long since I last posted. In honesty, I had somewhat lost my writing mojo. It happens. I have learned to wait it out because it ALWAYS returns. My brain doesn’t stop thinking of things to say (chance would be a fine thing!), but it is the actual sitting down…
Death to the self help movement – you don’t need it, honest
I’ve been avoiding housework. By wandering around bookshops. It’s my go-to procrastination destination. Do you have one of those? I am usually in love with book shops. Like, totally in love with them. Like, spend hours and hours in them love. But today I wasn’t feeling it. Rather than just ambling, I decided (as part…
Why hero worship doesn’t work for me
I am a sensitive soul. Anyone who knows me will tell you that, and I think it is obvious from what I write here. Sensitivity has many positives. It makes us kind people – we are sensitive to others’ needs, sometimes more than most. Sometimes. But it comes with its pitfalls. Fear of rejection for…
Tell Your Story #2 {Where have you lived?}
Number 2 in our Tell Your Story series. Yay! Today we are going to look at where we have lived. Where we have been very much shapes where we are, and indeed who we are, today and I find that the houses we have lived in elicit immediate memories of days gone by. I have…