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

September 7, 2020 By Tracey 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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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: age milestone, feeling invisible, friendship, middle age, motherhood

A friendship manifesto (the revised edition)

February 19, 2020 By Tracey 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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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood, Uncategorized Tagged With: friendship, friendship manifesto, school mums

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What happens if your one child wants a sibling?

January 23, 2018 By Tracey Leave a Comment

A friend is preparing for the arrival of her second baby and this makes my heart sing. A new baby is a reminder of all that is right and lovely and hopeful.  A sweet, little being who will create beautiful chaos. Her soul is preparing to once again be transformed and I am simply looking forward to…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: family, friendship, guilt, Infertility, motherhood, new baby, only child, siblings, toddlers

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A manifesto on friendship

November 8, 2017 By Tracey 2 Comments

It was quite a few years ago that I read a piece by Rebecca Sparrow called “I had a baby and became a crap friend.”  It was relevant to me because at the time I had a 2 month old baby but I since I was still in that newborn hazy, dazy bubble of baby powder it didn’t resonate…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: family, friendship, love, motherhood

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What if the Bachelor mansion was a workplace?

August 18, 2017 By Tracey Leave a Comment

I originally wrote this piece for a work blog and when I shared it with some clients I had mixed responses.  The Bachelor has a way to polarise public opinion.  There’s not a lot of fence sitting going on. I have a number of friends, colleagues and clients who watch The Bachelor and see it as…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: bullying, friendship, life, love, Reality TV, The Bachelor, Workplace

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The length and breadth of life

April 23, 2017 By Tracey Leave a Comment

Early last year Prince was due to tour Australia for a number of small and intimate “piano and microphone” shows.  MM and I looked at the dates, looked at our work schedule, looked at flights, the costs and the logistics and promptly and swiftly put the thought in the “too hard” basket.   We really wanted…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings Tagged With: Dear Melanoma, faith, family, friendship, lessons, life, love, Prince, Rebecca Sparrow

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