Mindfulness

Have you ever had a moment when you just can’t decide on something one way or the other? A moment of indecision. Leading to periods of procrastination as you put off making the decision. I certainly have as a writer/editor/journalist/…and person. Sometimes if you’ve been working on something for a while – you get too […]

The one thing I think/hope COVID taught us (or reminded us) is that if you feel unwell… stay home. Or at least be mindful of staying away from other people. For many years I had students arriving to class coughing and spluttering with the latest bug. For many years I would catch said bug, pass

I’m very mindful of food waste, so I like to plan out what we are going to eat the following week. It usually has a bit of flexibility in there, just in case… Quite often there’ll be one dish that will cover six serves (so three meals for the two of us). Just so I

I came across an article this morning by an American philosopher basically arguing that travel doesn’t change us. In her Case Against Travel she argues that we see and do things and have experiences on our travels, but at the end of the day we return home and continue to be the person we are,

This Sunday is Mother’s Day in Australia. It’s always a tricky one for me. I no longer have my mum (she died when I was 23) and I’m not a mother myself. But it doesn’t mean I can’t spend a few moments thinking about her. To be honest, I do that often anyway – I

I don’t know about you, but I am so relieved we are in the final week of campaigning for the federal election here in Australia. By the time we get to polling day it will have been five long weeks. Five long weeks of negative advertising, negative comments and negative press conferences. I would be

Last week we fulfilled a long-time promise of clearing out both our offices. Over the years we’ve tended to stack a few boxes, or piles of paper here and there. Each time you walk into the room you say to yourself ‘must sort those out’. But then another week, month or year go by and