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We capture the firsts, but what about the lasts?

November 24, 2020 2 Comments

Anchored in what felt the baby and toddler time warp,  I would think ahead to the future, because you know, ‘this to shall pass’ is the obligatory mother manta, and I would wonder what it would be like when there would be no more anxiety around sleeping, napping and wake times. No more smooshed sultanas…

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I turned 50 and though I wasn’t feeling invisible, I felt irrelevant

September 7, 2020 6 Comments

I turned 50 on the weekend. When I was young, 50 sounded old, an inconceivable time far into the future. Yet here I am, at a milestone because so far so good that I’ve made it to this point. #halfacentury I hadn’t really thought too much about it, age being just a number and there…

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“I smell hand sanitiser”

June 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Walking through a national park, surrounded by nature and not the confines and walls of our own home, I sensed a shift and began to think that maybe we were nearing the end of the corona time warp.  Nothing like a pandemic to mess with ones sparkle. I’m not very good at being at one…

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Lounge pants and other good things we need right now

April 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

I wish I could be the type of person who had something truly profound to say. To be knowledgeable enough to speak with insight and wise enough to speak with reason. Amidst an ocean of content, information, graphs and curves there is already so much being said and much of it is not something I…

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This too shall pass, but in the meantime

March 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

In recent days, very recent days, there has been a shift. A mood of eerie surrealism and a sense of being unmoored from reality. Of being emotionally unravelled by our social media feeds, our inboxes and the silence in the streets.  At 8am this morning I go for coffee, I locked eyes with a stranger,…

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A friendship manifesto (the revised edition)

February 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Quite a few years ago I wrote a friendship manifesto.  I had been thinking of friendships a bit at the time and had just gone to my 30 year school reunion and so I was reflecting on life long friendships and those that I had that were more recent and those that had evolved. Today…

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An open letter to the new school mums,

January 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Talking to a friend last week, she has her first child starting school this year, we were discussing all the emotional realities and logistical challenges that starting school presents. For example, she was genuinely concerned how she would get her sock hating 5-year-old to conform to sock wearing.  My advice of course, being something to do with bribery…

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Assume we are all doing the best we can

December 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

It all started with a disposable coffee cup. Waiting in line for my coffee, there were two women in front of me. They seemed to know each other, their interactions polite, not overtly but in a reserved manner. A bit like knowing of someone but not really knowing them. They ordered coffees, with one of them…

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Why work life balance doesn’t work

October 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

Netflix’s sitcom Working Moms first debuted in 2017 so I’m a bit late to the hype surrounding the series but I’ve recently been binge watching my way through each season and I loved it.  The show explores the minefield that is parenting, work, relationships, friendships and all the glorious and grimy bits in between.  It’s comical and…

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Consent and the six year old

August 29, 2019 2 Comments

It was Charlie’s birthday party, there were 20 something mini Ninjas in our backyard. Loud and free they are screaming, jumping and laughing. So much wild laughter and the sound is like balm to the soul. Children’s laughter is pure joy and comes as a gentle reminder that innocence is not always lost. There were tears…

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Just the three of us

July 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

You know that feeling when you use to think one thing and suddenly because of what becomes your lived experience you start to think differently? Yep, I do. What feels like a lifetime ago, but was only two years ago, I wrote a blog post called “I have one child, not an only child.”   It…

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    • We capture the firsts, but what about the lasts?
    • I turned 50 and though I wasn’t feeling invisible, I felt irrelevant
    • “I smell hand sanitiser”
    • Lounge pants and other good things we need right now
    • This too shall pass, but in the meantime

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