I work here, I play here, I try very hard to leave here as often as I can. Every now and then I like to down tools and just get the heck offline. I’ll be back in a week or two. You can take a break with me, even if it’s only little! Here are 20…
How to go screen free
Last week I talked about why our family has decided to be screen-free from Sunday – Thursday. Screens were becoming far too intrusive in our family life (and my son’s head), so we decided (okay, I decided) to extend our usual Screen Free Sundays (SFS) for most of the week. Before I tell you how…
#inthepicture
I’m stunned and overwhelmed and cheered and heartbroken and filled with joy over the response to my post about being missing from my children’s childhood. But I’m not surprised, not really. We mums have been missing from family photos for years and years and it’s time we jumped back #inthepicture. Being insecure and self-conscious and shy just isn’t…
I can never put myself back in the picture
I love photography and I hate photos of myself, but even I was surprised when I couldn’t find a single recent shot of myself and my children. Not one. I frantically started scrolling back through months and months and then years and years of photos, thousands and thousands of photos, and found about three photos of…
52 cool things for families to do together
Families are gorgeous. No, really, they are. You are. Your kids and yourself, hanging out, doing the things that all families do and the crazy little things that only your family does. You can take your ‘me time’ and your ‘date nights’ and enjoy them all you like, but family time is what makes our…
Summer sunshine
We’re back home today after two weeks of retro-fun down the coast where I grew up. Every time we’re down there I have the same thought, “I wonder if I’ll ever live here again?” Maybe I could live here: Or here: This would be my view from the top balcony: It’s impossible not…
Hello 2015: One word
And so the page turns on a new chapter for us all. Don’t you love that collective rush of energy and hope that the turn of the year brings? I make it a rule to thoughtfully leave the old year behind, smooth a fresh page ready to fill with dreams that have every opportunity of coming…
10 ways to make today a good day
When the slog of it all, this epic trek through quicksand that life so often is (especially in December!); when it all gets too much, we need to have a really good day. You know what it’s like. Life is frantically whizzing by and we start to wonder what it’s all about when, out of the…
The wisdom of Dolly
I was looking for a good quote to go with my post about feeling so unsettled lately and I came across the one above. It reminded me just how witty and interesting Dolly Parton is; and how wise. She is a true philosopher. Dolly has always proved to me that an intelligent woman is packaged in lots…
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say
“Go on, Bron, you do it,” my friend urges me. “You’ll know what to say.” And so I go, and so it goes. There are very few times in my life where I haven’t said what I want to say. There have been many, many times where my “filter” works better than others and I…