Christmas when someone is missing can be a tough gig. Robin Bailey wrote about the lead up to her second christmas since her husband's death on Mamamia. While Christine Rasmusen on Second Firsts had some great advice for those struggling to deal with the holiday season. This year was our second christmas since we lost Simon.For the first time we … [Read more...]
Exorcising the Grief With Another Letter
Dear Simon It's been awhile, sorry about that, but I've been busy you know raising these daughters you left behind, dealing with this house (yes I know the house was all my idea, clearly you were right it was a bad idea to build I can hear the "I told you so" booming down on me) and working full time. You would be so proud of our girls, they … [Read more...]
Mamma’s Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Creative
So, here we are, the end of high school for Hippie Child. After this it’s study, study, for the HSC exams in October ... and then ... well I’m not thinking about what comes next ... I’m taking the denial approach. To say this year has been difficult would be an understatement. You see it turns out Hippie Child has a creative streak so … [Read more...]
So Things Got A Little Freaky
Dear Simon Talk about signs, this one was a bit out there. I'm trying to get this bloody house finished so I was googling renderers to finish the brickwork, there was one there called Simon Williams (how weird that he would have your name)! Princess Child said I wasn't to call him ... so I rang four others, one was too busy and the other … [Read more...]
What I’d Miss (And What I Wouldn’t)
I'm reading The Most of Nora Ephron and for this post I am blatently stealing her idea of writing a list of what I'd miss if I was to die (read Nora's lists here). Now I'm not planning on checking out soon, I'm not even sick, despite my repeated visits to the doctor with what I consider to be life threatening ailments (it's stress Janine, your life … [Read more...]
And So I’ll Stand
By Brett Goshorn He never sat on the sidelines, He always stood, And I never paid much attention to it. But as the years passed, I found myself dragging an extra chair, To the weekly ritual of the round ball. Where it would be thrown on the cold earth, Unused, Wrapped in its shroud. The ladies loved to sit. And that was fine. Blankets, … [Read more...]
We Survived The First Christmas
Dear Simon, Well we got through it. The first Christmas without you. There was the usual chaos. Hippie Child was tasked with recreating your famous potato salad the one that you've served up every year since we've been in Port Macquarie to great compliments from the family. There was some pressure. I forgot to buy the bacon. I thought … [Read more...]
The F Series – Taking The Circuitous Staircase
As I predicted, Julie Bishop's refusal to embrace the F word, drew criticism. One of the most interesting pieces about this issue was by Paula Matthewson over at Women's Agenda, The real reason women of the right will never call themselves feminists. Matthewson explained, Those of us who are right-leaning individualists believe it is … [Read more...]
There’s Been An Interruption to Normal Transmission
Clearly, I'm not meant to be organised. For only the second time in the three-year history of this blog I had a week-long editorial plan. I KNEW what I was going to be blogging about each day. This is vastly different to my normal mode of blogging which basically is start with a blank screen, begin typing about the first random thought that … [Read more...]
The F Series – Who’s Wearing The Right Label?
I have written before about my struggles with the term feminist. To recap basically it's this; in my twenties I would have clearly defined myself as a feminist; in my thirties I would still have regarded myself as a feminist but was beginning to feel that traditional feminists wouldn't describe me as such given that I gave up that decade … [Read more...]
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