This year I felt like I wanted to write you a letter, sharing my heart with you for my writing for this year. Feel free to write back in the comments below or by email and let me know what you think. The girls are at school and the holidays are over. For our family … Continue reading Dear Reader
My year runs in tandem with the school year, so I am really starting to get my mind around what 2017 will look like now. I have been labelling kids school supplies and checking uniforms and thinking about the year ahead. Every year I chose a word for the year, and I will tell you my … Continue reading 2016: faith, vulnerability and community
My daughter drags herself out of the classroom. I can tell the sort of day she has had, by the way she shoves her belongings at me and demands that I help. Immediately mumma bear in me rises to the fore. I want to know the problem. I want to know exactly what happened. I want … Continue reading where you start
There is something about being surrounded by people who dare to dream. Something about being surrounded by creative people who have big ideas. It makes me feel that my dream is not so silly or dumb. It makes me feel that if they can do it so can I. It helps me to stick … Continue reading dream on dreamer
I have been wrestling with some hard questions today, about the choices I make in the supermarket. On the back of the International Women’s Day Facebook flood, I have the fate of hundred’s of women in my heart. Those women who have been trafficked. Those women who are slaves. And those women who are working … Continue reading on chocolate, tea and choice
I have increased my gym regime this year. (You know, it is very easy to increase a regime from zero!) So I am often in those big, slighty stale-smelling rooms, with equipment down one side and mirrors all down the other wall. Those mirrors, why are they there? I always thought that the mirrors were for … Continue reading the mirror