I’m led to believe that at the ripe old age of 30 (yours truly), the mature thing to do is reflect on your life’s accomplishments and failures…usually with some sort of inspired revelation which should determine the direction for the next thirty years… Read the rest of this entry »
It’s a New Year: time to pull up the socks, tuck in the belly and drag out the resolutions…. Read the rest of this entry »
One month post ‘Holiday of A Lifetime’ and time to take stock:
VERDICT = Stuck
It’s been 2 years since I was in Australia, and aside from missing the beaches and sunshine and food…I miss my friends and family. I could really do with their help in pulling me out of this mud-pool I’ve found myself in! Still, it could be worse in so many ways so enough moaning and time to get it together!
(Countdown starting now….222 days until D-day…B-day30)
Levanto – gateway to the Cinque Terre; surfer’s paradise (that’s not my words) and il dolce vita! Read the rest of this entry »
It’s such an immediate reaction, I guess that’s what they call ‘true love’? When you have that ‘at first-sight’ feeling and you can’t help but feel the smile from the pit of your stomach to the ends of your feet. That’s my France and it feels like coming home… Read the rest of this entry »
Fat; skinny; tanned; white; old; young – which of these things doesn’t belong? Which of these things is not like the other? Happiness DOES have a common denominator, but to an untrained eye such as mine, it took me a while to actually see it – and a child no less, to open my eyes. I did read about this phenomenon once, by royalty as well (even if he was a little prince)!
Looking up at the clouds today, I thought to myself ‘I want to be that bird – carefree, careless… just free’, and then I realised that maybe I’ve just been looking in the wrong direction…
I should explain. Read the rest of this entry »