The legs on our house
After five years, I'm still in love with Queensland houses - their long legs especially.
View ArticleHeart leaves
Outside my window as I work, I can see this beautiful tree loaded with hearts.
View ArticleLove and French toast
Looking at this picture, I can just feel the love: my beloved husband made me French toast, my favourite, for breakfast on Sunday. Mmmm.
View ArticleA lovely corner
You know those lovely corners around your house where it’s nice to just sit and be? This is one of mine.
View ArticleMoney on trees
Near our front door is a jade plant. Also called a money plant, or if you want to get formal, Crassula ovata. Chinese folklore tells me it will bring prosperity. I like that. ‘Prosperity’ literally...
View ArticleThe ‘good parent’ myth
It’s easy to feel expectations get the better of you when you have young children. Today I want to share a technique that I find useful for silencing that voice in your head that says ‘you should’ all...
View ArticleAsk me anything
Here’s another extract from an interview I did in March with the very gorgeous and soulful Lisa Blainey-Lewin from the Sacred Creative Gallery in Maleny. Tell us about the section in Parenting with...
View ArticleBooks, chat, coffee and freebies
Great books, chat, coffee and freebies – what could be better? I’ll be talking at Black Cat Books in Paddington (Brisbane) this Wednesday and Friday. I’ll be talking about Parenting with Soul – the...
View ArticleBubble and squeak for the soul
Even if you don’t have what you might consider to be a fully-fledged, rich, satisfying spiritual life right now, you might find there are enough skerricks of soul in your daily life to make a bit of...
View ArticleLove and loss
In the Dec 11/Jan 12 issue of Melbourne’s Child, I write about what it was like to be struck by grief from two directions just after my first child was born. The morning after my first daughter was...
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