Failing is Fabulous Fired and then fired again (and again) I’m a repeat fail-er. I fail often and with great variety. I was asked to leave one school and then formally expelled from another. I couldn’t even make it in one of those ‘school without walls’ style alternatives. I’ve been fired at…
A Killer Funeral There was much confusion over the cause of death. One person could have done with more imagination as they went for the rather ordinary ‘being hit by a bus’ scenario. One daughter thought it was failure to release the parachute during a tandem nude sky dive. Another daughter declared it was the tragic…
If this were a gift, what would it be? In my quest to walk through life as a recipient of goodness rather than hobbling along with my old victim mentality I need to avail myself of inspiration wherever I can get it. We’ve been lucky to have been handed many inspirational and life-changing nuggets as…
Gratitude – A Cure for Depression? This Is No Fun Depression is no fun… none at all, I hated it. Obsession isn’t any fun either… all that relentless going over what happened, who said what, who did what, and how unfair it all was. After a major life crisis I spent the…
Today it is my husband’s birthday. He is the most amazing man in the world. And the best of husbands. I almost missed marrying him because I said no when he asked me (except not so politely). It is only that a brave girlfriend said this to me: “You should marry him, he will treat…
In late 2005 the most amazing and most unlikely thing happened to me. I was offered a job by a company in the USA called Withoutabox. Withoutabox was the brain child of two brilliant men, both filmmakers, David Strauss and Joe Neulight. As most filmmakers know the process of submitting a film to a film…
I am one of those people who feel the cold. I used to live in Townsville in Far North Queensland. Townsville, a tropical town, has an average mid winter temperature of 25 degrees C or 77 F so most people manage quite well in their shorts and tees. I, on the other hand, could be…
My grand daughter Poppy, wants, among other things, to be a hairdresser. She has her own hair dressing kit and only needed a head to practice on. This is where I came in. My head was available. Being between jobs it wasn’t that important what I look like and at my age, really, can anything…
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and…
Like all mums I wanted to do the right thing by my kids. Lead them. Love them. Patiently teach them the important things in life and send them out mature and gracious adults. I wanted to be a great mum, an extraordinary mum, a virtual paragon of motherhood. I was going to be a wonderful…