"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

  • Looking Backward, Looking Forward – January 2023

    Reviewing my progress in January, setting my intentions for February: I spent a couple of weeks with my parents at their house in Point Lonsdale. The girls also stayed down…

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  • Taking Stock January 2023

    Cooking: From the Tenderheart cookbook. I got it before Christmas and have decided to cook my way through it.Sipping: Gin and tonic. The perfect easy summer drink.Reading: The Call of…

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  • Scraped Knees

    This is why it’s a miracle I didn’t come a cropper during the Two Bays Trail Run I fell over running easy on the Elwood Beach Boardwalk. Scraped knees are…

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  • Friday Thoughts #6

    From the Red Hand Files: If we do not attend to the work of projecting delight upon the world, what are we actually doing? If we do not look for…

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  • Australia Day 2023

    Today is Australia Day. The holiday is a contested one. Each city has Invasion Day rallies, and some companies gave their employees a choice as to whether they had it…

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  • In the Garden January 2023

    I had on my list for this year to do a photography project. As a start, I’ve decided to take photos of the garden each month. This will have the…

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  • Friday Thoughts #5

    From the comments on my post, email seems to cause angst to many people. I mentioned in my post that one of my strategies was to move the backlog of…

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  • Embodied Practices

    I think this would be a shame because one of the things I value about writing, is the act of writing itself. It is an embodied process that connects me to my own…

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  • Two Bays 28K

    The Two Bays Trail run on the Mornington Peninsula was a bucket list item for me, and I decided to do it as soon as I had a year where…

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  • Taming my inbox again

    I’m an inbox zero fan. My optimum situation is inbox zero every afternoon before I turn off the computer to get dinner ready and wind down, but with the move…

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