Mother. Writer. Aging Rebel. Eternal Optimist
From the monthly archives:
This past week was a lousy one for me. I’ve had severe PMS, which took a fiercer than normal hold this month, probably because I’m currently one big ball of frustration.
Lucky for me, one of my blogging friends, Charlie Gilkey, wrote a fantastic piece this week on 21 Ways to Quickly Short-Circuit A Funk and [...]
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Last week, Jemi from In My Heels kicked off our new SHE-POWER interview series doing a brilliant job as our first SHE-POWER Woman. Next week we’ll be welcoming our first SHE-POWER Man, and I can now announce it will be Clay Collins from The Growing Life.
Lucky for us, Clay has given me a lot of [...]
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This story follows on from I Like A Bit Of Phone Sex In The Morning.
The series starts with The Dilemma
“You don’t need me to do anything right now, do you?” Scott placed his half empty coffee mug on the kitchen bench in front of Clarissa and hovered uncertainly near her shoulder.
Clarissa looked at the [...]
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I haven’t posted much humor lately, so I thought I’d put this up today because for some reason it really tickled my funny bone. It’s an oldie, but a goodie.
I think my husband has been hearing a lot of loud sighs and “Don’t worry about it” recently while I’ve been organizing our son’s birthday presents [...]
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“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
- Angela Schwindt, Teacher and Author
Happy Birthday to my beautiful boy: 4 years old today
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I talked recently of my concerns about the direction of my blog and what niche I am in. Since then, I have thought a lot about this and have decided that SHE-POWER is about Celebrating Life and the Best of Humanity.
I believe everyone has unique gifts to share. I believe people, despite their diversity, are [...]
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Today, I had a most unproductive day. Last night I wrote out a list of what I wanted to achieve today and the only item I managed to cross off was number 4 on the list: spend quality one-on-one time with Bunny (my son).
We cuddled and watched cartoons. We did puzzles and read books. We [...]
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If you’ve never visited Terence Chang’s Happiness blog, SmileMyDay, then you’re missing out on an inspirational lift for your day. Terence has collected an array of amazing photographs of people and their smiles, which makes me proud to say I’m his latest Blogger Interview and Smile.
SmileMyDay is a truly unique blog and I hope [...]
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This short is a continuation of Mama’s Girls
The house was quiet as Clarissa walked toward the bedroom. Obviously Scott was still asleep. So much for helping with the barbecue. He’d be lucky if he was showered and dressed before everyone arrived at this rate.
Opening the bedroom door, Clarissa expected to see Scott still huddled under [...]
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For previous articles in this series, see How I Lost 9kg and Still Ate Chocolate Cake (1) and (2).
Losing weight and getting fit is great, but the real reward and challenge comes in maintaining these achievements over time. So far I have discussed the importance of the following changes for sustainable weight loss:
Accept the body [...]
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