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We were in a town of which Lonely Planet would later write: ‘there are no valid reasons to visit’, and I would mostly agree. Unless you ha..

Silence
Making me squirm
Growing fears of abandonment
Exaggerating inability
Providing space for chores to be listed
This isn’t thera..

I’m the kind of girl who would prefer to spend a large portion of the food budget in an op shop and go hungry for the rest of the week. I ..

In the first year of our marriage, Michael had a Husband of the Year idea that we would get out of town for one weekend a month. Of course..

I’m a typical school mum.

We accidently get up later than we should to enable the morning to run smoothly. Most of the time.

Our kid..

A curious thing happened around the time Michael and I got married. At this stage of life, it was observed that one of my idiosyncrasies w..

In all the blah, blah, blah of the week there was one phrase in a song that refused to leave my head.‘Mercy waits where sinners fall.’

In 1990 I bought a lot of new dresses. It was the year I turned 19, and I went to the weddings of 16 friends that year.

By the end of t..

About a year ago I did something no one saw coming. My sister and parents have never known me to do such a thing. Even my husband shook hi..

Everyone who knows me knows that I’m totally up for a fad addiction. When I love something, you’re gonna hear about it. A sample, inexhaus..