Travelling with children to and from remote places, nothing is easy and the road is filled with challenging stumbling blocks. Welcome to the yearly adventure… It’s a solid two days of traveling for…
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Easter has come and gone. Often in many places around the world this means shared meals, and hopefully some chocolate whether it’s bunny-shaped, or not. And for many more people, it means attending church…
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How to start and turn meditation into a practice. Acknowledge the importance of taking time for your own well-being and reveal truths through stillness. I meditated this morning. For the first time in what…
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Finding Beauty The troubles with travelling & living abroad, and how the mind acts as a portal to help ease the transition. You’re in one place but thinking about the other; simultaneously exploring where you are going to and…
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It’s dogs barking both close and far. It’s cars reverberating across a bridge whose joints have been sloppily paved over to create heaves that make an empty dump truck bounce and bang. Ker-chunk.…
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Along with my afternoon tea, today failure tastes like homemade banana bread abundant in walnuts. It tastes welcoming and satisfying. I’m pretty sure I’ve come full circle just as a lesson in appreciation.…
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The girls and I have started a new, uncharted adventure. Instead of being part of the rushed mornings, uniforms, packed lunches, drop-offs and pick-ups, we are learning at home. I really mean ‘we’ because…
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Do the opposite of what you feel like doing. This has been my advice to myself. You feel like sleeping longer? Get up. You feel like staying in your pyjamas? Get dressed. You feel…
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[This post is inspired by this article about living abroad.] Do you ever wish you could CSI a moment in time? Like if you lost your keys, you could use an app that looks back…
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home & lifestyle pregnancy & parenting relationships & love sisterhoodUnblocking Writer’s Block (or: A Glimpse Into My Day Lately)
Right. Just write. “Mommy, do you want someone to sleep with you in your bed who doesn’t kick you and loves you most of all?” – Yes, a night shift begins. Toss, turn, a…