Travelling is a funny thing. When you start your journey you’re super hyped and excited and noticing all kinds of things [caption id="attachment_954" align="alignright" width="225"] Packing light[/caption] you never usually would. For instance, you’re about to spend around 20 hours huddled into a seat smaller than the...
I'm no postcard uni student. Studying is driving me crazy, nuts in fact. I'll be 42 0r 43 before I finish and I think about quitting every day. I've been studying by distance on and off for the last seven and a half years. I'm...
A little while ago I signed up for Digital Parents International Blog Swap Day. That's where DP pair you with an awesome blogger from the other side of the world, with a blog similar to yours and you get to post on each others blogs. Lucky...
Eight years ago I came out. Yes that's right, in 2008, at the same time as the iphone was released, I realised that I was passionate about facebook, social media and blogging. It was almost like it was fate. As I started to write more the term 'social media' was coined and cool...
One minute I was writing in a koala journal, the next I’m a freelance writer. Okay maybe there were a few years in between but it’s proof, if you practice what you’re passionate about it can become your career. That bit never stops exciting me....
Today is the last day of the Australian summer and I'm excited. Living in central Queensland, summer can seem like it goes on forever. And finally some respite, well kind of...
Like many of my passions, my third passion yoga, came into my life right when it was supposed to and just when it was needed most. Which is to say just before I came to the realisation that I am prone to over thinking and...
I don't know whether friends choose you or you choose your friends but I'm really glad I met Sue. This is my friend Sue. [caption id="attachment_837" align="alignright" width="150"] My friend Sue[/caption] I caught up with her twice last year but before that I wouldn't have seen her for about five years...
I never used to love health and fitness, the second of my passions. At school I hated sport. I would hide in the toilets at try and avoid it. I walked the cross country, and school sports carnival was a nice day out in the...
I have to be honest when I sat down to write about family, the first of my seven passions, I struggled. I mean where do you start? How can you put into words the magnitude of what your family mean to you? As a kid I...