Got a Minute to Lose?
As I left my mechanic’s workshop at 8.15am having dropped off my car for a service, I walked calmly across the driveway of the adjacent service station, wondering what I’d do next – sit at the local coffee shop and wait, or hike back up the hill to my house nearby. Suddenly, I felt a […]
Go Fearlessly Forward
As I sit here one hour early In the school hall of my only child, my son of 17 years, for his year 12 graduation ceremony, I have ample time to reflect on the years that have flown by, have swallowed up a little boy and churned out a young man. Th first six years […]
Uke Odyssey takes wings to the far north
So, as we gear up to leave for the far north of Queensland – Cape York and the Torres Strait, we are surrounded by 40 ukes in our living room. We need to tune them almost daily to get them used to staying in tune, and also label them with a message and photo of […]
Conversations – are we losing touch with our real world?
As I took the bus to the city last week, I saw three groups of elderly women chatting happily to each other. Even though I was standing in the crowded bus, I was amused by them – smiling, laughing, regaling and just doing what comes naturally to women and, more specifically, people over the […]
Switch off….and switch on to the present
As I sit in three lanes of thick, crawling traffic on the way to the city one morning – something I rarely have to do, thankfully – there’s always time to look at what’s going on around me on the roadsides. Strangely, traffic jams do sometimes give us headspace to just “nothing” and to be […]