• “Sunscween?”

    “Bye bye,” I said. “Mummy is going for a bushwalk.” “No, no, no!! Mummy BABY booshwalk!” he said, blocking me from shutting the door while I was trying to go on my solo hike. “If you want to bushwalk with me, you HAVE to wear your hat.” “Sunscween,” he said. “No, buddy,” I said. “It…

  • The gift of art

    The gift of art

    For all the times I complain about motherhood, it’s also my inspiration. I have been on and off with my art for so many years. Work came first. Life came first. Then when my son came along, I had to create. I had the support and time to create. There was less pressure, at first,…

  • Angels drive utes

    Angels drive utes

    “Are you okay?” Jason yelled out of the window, after he stopped his ute behind my little car on the fast-moving highway. I had been driving over 100km/hour, with a toddler screaming… “I want GWAMMAAAA….!!!!” (grandma) Over the hour he screamed, I went through the 10 stages of parenting: from gentle mother to roaring lionness,…

  • Long time no see…

    When I don’t create or paint, I feel something missing. So I am back. I have signed up for a Painting Membership to keep me accountable to my art… AND intermittently, I visit Painting Parties to get out of my head, and onto the canvas. Sunday afternoon was just that. Here’s my Australian Native Wreath!…

  • 2020 – A year in the life of Peace and Chaos

    2020 – A year in the life of Peace and Chaos

    If 2020 taught us anything, it is that life is chaos. In January 2020, we noticed something bizarre starting in Wuhan and we watched as the dominoes starting falling. After the Australian bushfires of 2019-20, there seemed to be nothing that could top that kind of chaos, until there was: The COVID-19 pandemic. We have…

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