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A life in Boxes
De-cluttering (see earlier blog). What a surprise – progress is slow! Much slower than I anticipated. I keep getting sidetracked on associated issues, like sorting through boxes of mixed up Lego. I...
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A Sort of Chrysalis
Times are a-changing. Young Donald is still lazy and frustrating and irritating and causing me to lose my hair and at time leaving me a quivering blob of despair. Parenting a teenage boy is never...
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On the Brink
2013 promises to be a defining year for me – to some degree anyway. This is the year that I turn 60. I have only just adjusted – sort of – to the description of middle-aged being applied to me. OK,...
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Building a Retirement Village
I often think about retirement years, where and how I’ll live and with whom. I’m not partnered so of course the ‘with whom’ questions might be easy to answer: I’ll live alone. That might not always...
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Fiscal Responsibility
All my life I have been sensible with money. I’ve had to be. Some of the early life and study choices that I made meant that I had to live at times on a very meagre salary. With frugal living...
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Retirement and the Dreams of Children
Duckie:The myth of ‘happily ever after’. It is something that occupies my thoughts as I start to focus my dreams for the future, senses and views heightened by the knowledge that retirement will be in...
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Sorting the Linen Press
What do you do on a wet and wild weekend? OK, stay in bed is one option but this morning I have been sorting and tidying the linen press. Who would believe that there would be favourite sheets that...
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Walking with my shoes, talking with my heart
It really is time for a parting or the ways. There is little sole left between us anymore, but I still hold on to the memories. We are moulded together, you and I and have that comfortable...
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The Journey
My son has returned home. He got a big hug rather than a fatted calf and it was good to have him with me again, however briefly that might be. When he left aged 18 to seek work and fortune interstate,...
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What do you want to be?
What do you want to be when you grow up? How many times were you asked that as a child? If you were anything like me, you really had no idea of what the options were, let alone what you wanted to do,...
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Scientific Justification for a Wandering Mind
I’ve always thought that I had a major problem with concentration – or lack of it. It started in school which I would zone out during history or science, and lose myself in daydreams about endless...
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A Time of Transition
Although it is some time since I have posted to this site, it’s for good reason. My current employer recently decided that my role, and that of several colleagues should be made redundant....
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A slowing down – sort of
Last night I watched a program on the ABC on the slow movement. Titled Frantic Family Rescue, it detailed the efforts of three families to slow down the frantic pace of their lives, guided by...
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