Nearly a year ago, my family and I moved across the world from Australia to the United States so my husband could spend a few years working in his company’s head office. We have three young kids, so this move was massive and unsettling and exciting all at the same time. A seismic shift in ...

I always suspected I would live overseas in my lifetime. Not only because an old Indian palm reader told me so (although that was very interesting), but because I could feel it, deep down in my bones, long before I proffered my palm for its secrets. So I wasn’t surprised when the chance to move from the ...

My overworked husband finally came to bed at 2.30 am and ended any chance I had of slipping back into my deep and comfortable sleep. After tossing and turning for two hours, I dragged a blanket out to the couch to wait for daylight, which comes late in this new wintery city of ours. I flicked on ...

I recently shared on my Facebook page a three-part series from Anna over at Colour Me Anna all about getting ‘unbusy’ (her cool word for stepping off the frantic loop of modern life). You can catch up here, here and here. I probably don’t need to tell you the health benefits of slowing down. I’ve written ...