This morning I read an email by Clark Kegley ( clark@clarkkegley.com ). It was entitled "10 things I wish I knew a decade ago." Somehow I...

Like so many of us, I'm busy. Busy, busy, busy. I flit from work to hobbies to social occasions and home, from connection to connection,...

“We writers,” he’d said, “employ a process of exploration; we dive into the depths of our psyches, we submerge ourselves, going deeper and d

The hero’s journey is the pathway to self-respect and self-belief.

Over Christmas I travelled to New Zealand to visit friends and family. Whilst I was there I had the opportunity to meet two French HelpX...

Dinner table conversations from my childhood were informative affairs. They often took on a very specific flavour. Why? Because my...

The beginning of October saw three friends and I hop on a plane to Bali. We bunked down at a little motel near the airport overnight and...

My friend has just opened a store in the Dandenong ranges and I have been there with her through almost every step of the process. She...

Recently I returned to my homeland, New Zealand, for a friend's milestone birthday. I had the most wonderful time, both with her and her...

As a child and young person, I had the immense good fortune to be successful. No matter what I put my mind to, I seemed to be able to...

Recently, I seem to have been surrounded by death or the threat of it. A couple of friends' beloved dogs have died, one beautiful woman I...

I loved going back to uni as a single mother in my thirties. I had always been a bit of a researcher and explorer and to place all lived...

I hate to admit it, but recently I've had a struggle around giving up smoking. I knew it was bad for me. My 'daughter of a redhead' genes...

I was sharing ideas from my last blog with a group of friends last weekend. They were in agreement about how little we know of other's...

The thing I love most about being a writer is the weaving and crafting of stories. I get to create currents, flickering with images....

I'm a very lucky sibling. I have three wonderful little sisters and an amazing little brother. (I say little with my tongue in my cheek...

When I was in my teens I loved making mixtures. I learnt to make fudge in one of my friend's kitchens on a play date, and being a sweet...

I've been suffering from a kind of malaise recently. I stay up late, often until dawn watching Korean Netflix programs ('Tail of the...

The night before I started my first job I couldn't sleep. I was so nervous I tossed and turned in my bed. A couple of times during that...

Over the past four months I've been doing research for "First Blood, Last Blood" a set of women's stories. Holding space for such stories...