On Tour With The Kid | The Random Thoughts of a Woman With Time on Her Hands
As I write this, I feel that the world is quite heavy. Things in the Middle East have never seemed more tense or closer to spilling over...
On Tour With the Kid | So This is Christmas
It's the time we look back over the year, and well, this one has been eventful, to say the least. After a surgical mishap, I needed to...
On Tour With the Kid | Longing for the Country
I heard an interesting term to describe myself the other day. I'm part of the "sandwich generation." Apparently, this means that because...
On Tour With the Kid | Home is a State of Mind
When the kid was little, we renovated an old house. It was not a mansion by any means, but it was exactly what I had always wanted....
On Tour with the Kid: Connective Tissue
Life is full of choices. When you are a kid, you are kind of along for the ride. Still, the decisions that are made for you can change...
On Tour With The Kid: Self-Care Makes Life Better for Everyone
I have been an absolute nightmare to be around just lately. Not the ideal opening sentence, I grant you, but the truth, nonetheless. It’s...
On Tour With the Kid | Humane Society
In my family, voting is a very big deal. From the year I turned 18, we would go in person, often as a family. I have always numbered...
The Long, Long Road to Recovery
On 28 February, Lismore flood levels peaked at 14.4 metres, more than two metres higher than the previous record of 12.27 metres in 1954....
Two Lives Well Lived
On Good Friday, the world lost two of the most amazing men that I ever knew. One was Cessnock born and bred golfing legend Jack Newton,...
Live like You Were Dying
My grandmother is 85, and when there is a funeral for people in her generation, there is sadness, of course, but there are also phrases...
On Tour With The Kid: My Wish For You
As I write this, I am waiting for a friend I have known for over twenty years to have a baby. My own child (and the inspiration for this...
If This is The End….
We might just be coming to the end of this two-year-long ordeal. I would like to think I learned a few things while we were all confined.
Introverts Unite! Alone at Home
There are obvious (and massive) downsides to lockdown. The fact that no one in the industry I work in can make any money is undoubtedly on t
The Ethical Line
I was surprised to learn when the Kid started school that there was no ethics-based option when scripture class is on. The kids who didn't
The Unposted Letter
I have a confession to make. My name is Chloe, and I'm a hoarder. Now, I know that word evokes visions of a house filled with newspapers pil
