Some people have a really tidy house. They don’t have to wipe up lunchtime sandwich crumbs from the bench to prepare dinner. When they get dressed in the morning, they take their clothes from their wardrobe rather than the couch. I don’t really get any of that. Such double handling. What’s something you do yourself? … Continue reading Create space in your bedroom in one easy step
Farewell Autumn 2014, and thank you
Do you find your Facebook newsfeed full of status updates on New Years Day bidding the previous horrible year good riddance, and hoping the new year is a better one? I like today's prompt in Clairey Hewitt's I'm Blogging Every Day in May! 'Farewell Autumn 2014, you have been…' because it forces you to look … Continue reading Farewell Autumn 2014, and thank you
Can we just have acts of kindness, not necessarily random?
I see kindness as the most important of all the things we can teach our kids. How we respect others, how we treat one another and how we think about ourselves - we talk about how to be kind with our kids, we teach them by modelling kindness, and we praise them if we see … Continue reading Can we just have acts of kindness, not necessarily random?
Now, you have my full attention
My dad opened the glove box and there it was. A carton of Marlboro Reds. Not a packet. A carton. I was 23 living in America and my parents had come to visit. Source I used to smoke for a few reasons: It made me look cool. They were really cheap in the States. And, … Continue reading Now, you have my full attention
Make yourself a cuppa and follow this link
Jimeion once had me laughing hysterically about making a cup of tea, for the same reason that Seinfeld was a great show - 'the show about nothing'. 'Share a blog that you enjoy reading' is today's prompt in Clairey Hewitt's I'm Blogging Every Day in May! I don't follow any blogs or think to read any blogs … Continue reading Make yourself a cuppa and follow this link
Are ghosts real?
We’d sit under the billiard table with blankets draped down the sides. We'd write ’yes’, ‘no’ and the letters of the alphabet on little squares of paper and put them in a circle. Then, by the torchlight, we’d all place a finger on an upturned glass in the centre of the circle. One of us … Continue reading Are ghosts real?
What’s for tea tonight?
If I could be a fly on the wall at any time in history, I'd want to be just out of swatting-reach in the kitchen where my grandfather and his 12 brothers and sisters were being served boiled carrot for dinner. Just carrot. Not with scalloped potatoes or steak like we had tonight. And not … Continue reading What’s for tea tonight?
Reading a novel is not self-indulgent. Repeat.
After yesterday, we know that if you want time, you have to make it. So from now on, I should make time to read. I like reading. And I really love writing. And everything I've ever read about how to be a good writer says to read a lot. My days were full and I never … Continue reading Reading a novel is not self-indulgent. Repeat.
Want more hours in your day?
Never again will I say that I don't have time. This month I've been blogging every day and exercising every day. And I must say, I've never been so productive. They're the two things I always claimed I didn't have time to do. But I've been able to do them both plus everything else I used … Continue reading Want more hours in your day?
Writing by Larissa Patton 