Sell. Donate. Dump. Three words I have been living by for almost two weeks. I am moving. Scratch that, I am evacuating. Selling everything in my home and heading overseas for a writing sabbatical. Why? Because my dead mother told…
The yogi who is addicted to abusive relationships, the organic paleo chef who inhales cocaine after dark, the eco spa that offers Botox, the bankers who 'cash it all in' to become hippies. Whichever road you take the path to enlightenment…
I have been talking about writing a book since, well, since my last one was published. Trouble is my last book hit the shelves in 2002, so it's been twelve years of talk. As my sixth grade teacher Mr Foster…
You'll never guess the gender of this overheard conversation. When men obsess like women and vice versa . It's 10.00am on a Saturday. I'm sitting in a waterside cafe ingesting my first caffeine of the day. Next to me sit two people…
A tale of being still and finding joy while travelling round the world. It's 4.00am and I'm battling the desire to fully awaken. My body is in Sydney but on USA time after three weeks in Colorado on the ski…
I have 31 days to fit into my ski pants. Not that I am counting. It is a familiar struggle that comes round every year. Though I have been known to miss an entire ski season in protest at my…
I have just spent half an hour sobbing into a Sass & Bide t-shirt found on the floor of my car parked outside a Thomas Dux gourmet supermarket while a friend on the end of the phone teaches me how…
Food addicts are creative. I know because I have been (and may still be) one. The fear of having our gluttonous ways exposed can lead us to do the most ridiculous things that in a normal eater's world simply make…
I am obsessed, obsessed I tell you, by the Let Them Walk video currently doing the social media rounds (I've posted it at the bottom of this blog). The message is so simple "when people can walk away from you…
Did you know you can’t actually physically break the heart? It is the hardest working muscle of the body and can beat over three billion times in a person’s life. Drop it and it doesn’t crack, doesn’t shatter into shards…
You can't always get what you want when you travel. The unpredictable can go either way. The woman arrived on day two, though her gender doesn't matter. I don't remember her name, it is better that way, but I remember…
I live in a beachside suburb known as Avalon where you don't say hello, please or thank you, you say namaste. No, I'm not in Goa, India, I'm in an upper middle class suburb of one of the world's most…
Why planning a funeral before death can be a gift to yourself and others. My mum knew she was dying. I knew too, as much as I didn't want to, I knew. It was written in her face which seemed…
Fat people are not allowed to go to Burning Man, they can't be seen at weddings nor dance in Ibiza or swim in the ocean or be seen on the ski slopes. My fatism has followed me around since I…
We already know that Christmas can suck like a Dyson if you don't have the family portrait peddled to us by consumer marketing departments each year. You know the type: snow white-haired grandparents in shades of neutral linen and chambray…
