Some great things can come out of COVID. Throughout lockdown, and the strange way of life we’ve had over the past year, I’ve been writing and recording songs over Zoom with a fantastic music producer, Keefe West. I’m in Sydney and he is on the North Coast. It’s been incredible what can be achieved online, […]
Big week for One of Those Guys! I attended the protest for Women for Justice in Sydney with four friends. Our kids all went to the same public primary school and when one of us said she was going, we all went too. I hadn’t been on a train for a year and how joyful […]
Yet again. We keep failing people who have been subjected to violence. Brittany Higgins was so brave to tell her story. The stakes were so high – yet she told her truth. Sadly Brittany’s story is yet another of individual suffering and the failure of collectives to protect and advocate for the rights of individuals […]
Nowhere? Everywhere? Round and round in a sea of indecision or despair? What a strange period of time it has been. A big fat, uncomfortable, joyous reset button. For some, it has been such a busy, stressful period of being in the thick of the virus and all the associated collective anxiety. For others it […]
On the road again. I love taking to the road and discovering new stories and places. I’ve always wanted to go to Rick Stein’s restaurant at Mollymook, so my husband and I hit the road. It was so gorgeous. The location. The view. The glimpse of the bay through the trees. The family groups laughing. […]
If I look back on the books, podcasts and interviews I have listened to over the last month, there’s something of a theme. I started with the biographies of Deborah Harry and Julie Andrews, moved on to the magnificent Dolly Parton’s America podcast and finished with the wonderful Clare Bowditch’s interview https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/clare-bowditch-memoir/11679560 with the lovely […]
Oh dear. Well from the conversations I have been having with my friends – this would seem to be true. Maybe they are not miserable, just beginning to see through the fog of raising children. Once our children are well into teenage hood, we seem to get to a point where we erupt with anger […]
The important things are discussed here… I love TV, movies, music and books. I used to love magazines too – I still love Woman and Home. I just read Debbie Harry’s biography and it’s fab – a real trip to NYC in the 70s. I love the new Bachelorette – Angie is sassy, funny and […]
Hello, and thank you so much for visiting my website! My first novel, Love Song will be coming out in a few weeks and I am both crazily excited and terrified – I think in equal parts! This book has all the feels – the laughs, the tears and the joy. I wrote it because […]