A Letter to My Daughter: Winding Roads and Life Lessons.
Dear daughter, In five days time you will be ten. 10-years-old! It only feels like yesterday when I held you in my arms for the very first time, pondering how I created something so truly beautiful....
View ArticleGuest Post Of The Month: What the Bleep Do I Want?
What The Bleep Do I Want? Written by Chey Being This may seem a bit selfish at first glance. The “me, me, me,” of my inner two-year-old but au contraire my darlings. A good portion of my life has...
View ArticleA Letter To My Best Friend
Dear kiddo, Some people come into our lives and barely leave a trace, others leave a string of footprints etched upon our hearts, letting us know they are with us every step we take. You, my friend,...
View ArticleLife Choices: Kite Flying and Puzzles Pieces
Life Choices Life is like flying a kite. We may hold the strings, but we cannot control the weather conditions our kites might face. Some days the winds might be strong and energetic. The force...
View ArticleDear Life…
Dear Life, I’ve been thinking about you a lot recently. I don’t know why? Perhaps I’m on the brink of a ‘slightly premature’ mid-life crisis? Maybe I have reached a crossroads in my life and have no...
View ArticleWhen Chalk Met Cheese: Do Opposites Really Attract?
My husband and I are polar opposites. In fact, we are so different, that if you filled a room with a million people and plucked two out at random, they would most likely have far more in common than we...
View ArticleWhat The Heck Am I Going To Do With My Life?
“What do you do?” A stranger asked. I froze for a second, like a deer caught in the headlights. I could feel my heart thump erratically inside its cage. Trapped. With nowhere to run and nowhere to...
View ArticleAll I Want for Christmas… Is a Divorce!
Life works in mysterious ways. Just when we think the cards are on our side. Bam! Reality is flung upon the table and smacks the cards right out of our grasp. One by one they fly into the...
View ArticleInstagram: The Unfiltered Truth
Climb into a world of filtered perfection. A world that papers over our flaws and ties them up in beautiful bows. A world of neat 4 by 4 squares, showcasing faultlessly-executed moments of our...
View ArticleThe Candid Musings of an Unmumsy Mum
“Is that an eruption under my pillow?” I sleepily wonder, my eyes reluctant to face the light of day. “Oh crap! It’s my alarm!” Yep, the same alarm I have reset nine times over, but to no avail....
View ArticleOh Crap! I’m Having a Midlife Crisis!
“I feel most alive when I’m dancing on the edge of insanity.” – Amanda Lyle. Here I stand, alone again. Wondering when my life became so stagnant. So colourless. So robbed of joy. The party...
View Article2017, I’m ready for you!
A few nights ago, I had a dream. And in this dream, I woke up… only I was still asleep (Bear with me!) I was running through the ever-expanding garden of a house I once lived. The trees swayed...
View ArticleHoly Crap! I’m Thirty
My shopping basket rattled along the aisles of Tesco’s Express. Three bottles of cheap Prosecco and one for luck. And just so I didn’t look like the local alky; a loaf of bread and a pint of...
View Article