I have lived in several remote places in which deciding where to do your grocery shopping is not so much a choice but a default. Because there is only one option, whether that is Woolworths or a local store. Even for people who live in urban or rural environments, options can be limited due to…
Lately I have been learning about GDP – what it measures and what it doesn’t. I made the following lists as a form of activism: to reclaim the inherent value of how I spend my life energy when I’m not making or spending money, and how I benefit from others doing the same. I hope…
I was getting ready to write my quarterly review of my reading life for the third quarter of the year, and I realised I hadn’t published the second quarter. Later, I found it hiding erroneously in the “published” folder of my “blog” folder on my computer. Very strange. I am posting it now with only…
I have started a new series called Money Talks. I am attempting to heal my relationship with money and I am bringing my blog readers along for the ride! In Money Talks #1, I reviewed three personal finance books I have read recently. In today’s post, I am sharing what I learned from reading those…
Lately my special interest has been personal finance. This has been sparked by going from ‘just getting by’, to having a reasonable household income. My aims are 1) to get rid of toxic beliefs and heal my relationship with money and 2) to manage our money responsibly so we are working towards achieving our financial…
My breastfeeding journey started when I was a child. When I was four, my mother gave birth to my younger sister, and breastfed her until she was one. My mother has always been an advocate for breastfeeding, and was never shy about breastfeeding in front of anyone, in any setting. My first memory of seeing…
“Adulting is hard,” Matt sighed as we whizzed through the Wednesday evening jobs. Wednesday nights are always busy, with a daycare bag to unpack and repack as well as the usual evening jobs, but every second Wednesday we also have to tidy up for the cleaner to come on Thursday morning(1). It’s true, adulting is…
I have been having a hard time lately, struggling to cope with the everyday demands of my life. I haven’t felt like myself, as a person or as a mother. I have been snapping at my husband and son. That’s not who I am. I resolved to enjoy Finley more, to take time to have special…
Meg Berryman on moving beyond wellness, on The Slow Home Podcast. “What’s right about you? What’s working well? Where are you whole? What does feel good? Let’s start to amplify that rather than marketing to your pain points.” This is a podcast episode about the relationship between looking after yourself and doing good in the…
Happy World Breastfeeding Week everyone! To celebrate, here are some knowledge nuggets about breastmilk. 1. The milk is not just the milk. Back when Finley was tiny, I spent almost as much time telling people about breastfeeding as I did actually breastfeeding. Being an Aspie mum, I didn’t always read the room. One time I told…
(Written in March, when Finley was 12 months old – before sleep training) The gap between awake and asleep is at once so tiny and yet so huge, I think, as I rock my child to sleep. He is a baby (baby?) who fights sleep Maybe it is because he is enjoying our close…
Spoiler warning: Outlander (the first book). Content warning: discussion of rape, including marital rape. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” – The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde People keep talking about how good the Outlander novels are, and it just makes me bristle. I just want…
