PRE 2024 BLOGS
I started a blog back in late 2014, soon after leaving my diplomatic career and moving to the Barossa.
When I started, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about, so you’ll find blogs about career change, moving to the Barossa and the start of my writing journey.
Unfortunately, my blog writing took a back seat when I started my copywriting business in early 2019.
But I kept this website because I wanted to keep the record of my career change, our move to the Barossa and my early writing experiments.
Don’t mind the gap!
Edited 1 June: I've been completely overwhelmed by the response to this post. Who knew that a little rant about imperfect photos and memories would be shared so widely and generate such interest. The photo company involved have been really honest,...
Career change 1.0 – redefining failure
What do you do when your career change business doesn’t work? How to redine failure as opportunity.
The Chicken Pox blogging challenge
Hello and welcome to the Chicken Pox Pity Party. If you're related to me or one of my friends on Facebook, you'll know that two days into the term, after what seemed like an eternally long holiday, I got the call from school that every parent dreads. "Hello, it's the...
A beach holiday in Normanville
Highlights from our beach holiday in Normanville
Rediscovering the joy of writing
After a 30 day writing boot camp, I’ve discovered my love of writing and realised, it doesn’t need to be perfect, but you have to write often
Leaving on a jet plane – an exchange year begins
25 years ago yesterday I started my first overseas adventure without my parents. I flew out of Sydney with a group of other Rotary exchange students, bound first for Melbourne (where we would pick up another big group), then Singapore and then Copenhagen. Arriving in...
Goodbye 2016 – year of busy, hello 2017 – year of making time
A quiet Christmas has provided a good opportunity to sit back and think about the year that was and plan for 2017. In the days since Christmas, we’ve watched the news covering the deaths of icons like George Michael, Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds,...
Making time to write
Distraction got the better of my nanowrimo experience but hoping the Make Time to Write course will help me develop a writing habit
A new home in the Barossa
A couple of months ago, we got the keys to our new house in Tanunda. It all happened quite quickly and two months after looking at this property (the weekend after we got back from Vietnam) we had our very own place after renting for the past 2.5 years. We spent a few...
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