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Online events? Yes please!

22 November 2020

One of the beneficial side-effects of travel restrictions and the desire to stay home as much as possible is that I have attended many more events than I would have pre-pandemic. Have you taken advantage of this? I’m grateful to the many organisations that have redesigned their programs for digital participants instead of in-person ones. […]

How to simplify life

19 November 2020

Sometimes pulling together all the threads of our lives seems totally overwhelming. I know I often have so many decisions to make – some large but mostly small – that I become paralysed with indecision. That’s not how I want to live my life. So, on a regular basis, I simplify and pare back. It’s […]

What a difference a year makes

25 October 2020

One year ago today, the removalists packed all our possessions into their van and drove over 100 kilometres to our new home. We each drove our cars, packed to the limit with (mostly) my pot plants and followed them south, away from Sydney to the Southern Highlands. After everything had been off-loaded and the removalists […]

March blues

17 March 2020

Well March has gone downhill fast, hasn’t it? How are you all feeling? Anxious, unsure of the future, and trying to stay calm? Or is that just me? (Four questions in a row, that’s a barrage!) Take a big breath and enjoy this photo of pretty flowers I cut from my garden this morning. It’s […]

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I acknowledge the Gundungurra people on whose land I live and create.
I pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
I recognise that this is, was, and always will be aboriginal land.

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