
2025 in Review
I began the year with international travel on my mind, and I’m ending it the same way. It’s funny how certain themes bookend our lives. For me, travel has always … Read the rest “2025 in Review”
Since 2002, I’ve been writing a “yearly review”. Watch and read, as my weight, thought and value system fluctuates from year to year!!! Hopefully I get wiser each year, though don’t count on it. :)

I began the year with international travel on my mind, and I’m ending it the same way. It’s funny how certain themes bookend our lives. For me, travel has always … Read the rest “2025 in Review”

Unlike last year when I was out and about at the Tropical Fruits New Years Eve Party, my plan for tonight is to go to bed earlyish, read my book … Read the rest “Yearly Review 2024”

My niece told me she had to summon up all her courage to tell me halfway through the year that my lower right leg had been amputated. I had been … Read the rest “Yearly Review 2023”

“Though it hasn’t been in the best of circumstances, at least it’s allowed you to spend time with your family”, my friend Sue’s mum commented over lunch yesterday. We were … Read the rest “Yearly Review 2022”

It’s mid-afternoon and I’m sitting at the kitchen table at Pat and Jack’s place in Lismore. Pat is sitting on the back verandah making her way through one of those … Read the rest “Yearly Review 2021”

It’s all “party of five” here in Sydney for NYE tonight. That’s the maximum number of people allowed in homes tonight, though I’m sure tomorrow’s newspapers will tell of stories … Read the rest “Yearly Review – 2020”

It’s the morning of December 28th, and I’m sitting at the kitchen table at Pat’s place in Lismore. Pat is wandering around the house doing bits and pieces. Jack and … Read the rest “Yearly Review – 2019”

“Where will you live? Will you live in Goonellabah?”, a relative asked me on the phone the other night, when I told her about my retirement plans, which involve returning … Read the rest “Yearly Review – 2018”