I’d like to tell you about one of the strongest women I’ve ever met in my entire life and what she means to me. I’ve fought with her, cried with her, leaned on her, derided her, ignored her, envied her and loved her more than any other human being on this planet. She’s seen me…
Let me tell you a story and while this one does begin with once upon a time I’m afraid there is no happy ending and for some other families the story goes on into horror. So …….. Once upon a time I had a little brother, David, who I adored and who adored me, my…
Hi folks, I’ve been somewhat absent as you can see. Sadly it wasn’t because my life took a new and interesting turn …… sigh ……. It was a case of computer meets coke with the fairly predictable outcome of computer meltdown. As all unanticipated emergencies it came at a most inopportune time when lack of…
I don’t suppose my dog ate my blog post will do as an excuse will it??? Hmmm thought not truth is I’ve been rushing like a mad thing to catch up on the work that stacked up while I was sick. Student have this rather nasty habit of wanting their results for assessment back in a…
I was so touched when Alicia from LiveLoveLaugh nominated me for this award and even more so when she explained why she chose Unload and Unwind for the nomination. Writing for me is such a joy whether it be political, humerous [or both as goddess knows politics often opens the way for much humour], self…
Well it’s a fun packed weekend all round here in the land of Oz. Apart from the fact that our PM has seen fit to ‘loose the dogs of war’ without actually explaining what the threat to Australia is to anyone there have been other, and to my mind, more important issues that came to…
I had a very interesting chat the other day with my son regarding racism in Australia and the divergent responses we have when faced with it. Since then I’ve been pondering my own attitudes and the feelings that are roused when I see or hear of behavior that is inherently harmful all based on the…
From time to time my brain and I go to war and the major casualty of that war is sleep. It’s not enough that I can’t seem to wind down of an evening but when I do feel that wonderful lethargy that precursors the land of nod and fall into bed my brain instantly decides…
Hi folks – I do actually have a really good reason for being absent for the past few weeks. It’s quite simple I was devoting all my energies to living in denial and when not directed at living in denial they were focused on not freaking out by the fact that the major surgery I’ve been…
Hi folks – I’m back and in one piece [last time I checked anyway] despite feeling that I’ve been caught up in some ever expanding work vortex. Honestly it feels as if I haven’t put two feet on Terra Firma for nearly a fortnight if not longer but gotta say it’s been one hell of…
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