On Monday I got back to work (from home) after nearly two week’s break over Easter. My husband and I have now been doing the lock down thing for six weeks, the teenagers for five weeks, the primary schoolers for four. Next week the schools our kids will start a return to face-to-face classes, with…
Author: Marilyn Rodrigues
I'm a journalist and married mother of five. I live in Sydney.
Random week in June notes
It’s not the end of June yet, but it’s been an eventful week so these little snippets aren’t completely random. Our fourth child received his First Holy Communion last Sunday. He was so ready for it, it was such a joy. His older brother’s event two years ago had seen a packed church and barely…
Vegetarian winter soups
I love early winter’s colder mornings and nights – as long as I’m inside. Many of the streets where we live are lined with maples and other deciduous trees and about half of them are still in full display. I love the way the evenings, which start around 5pm now, form foggy parentheses around sparkling…
10 strategies for achieving a work-life balance that actually work
First up, I think it’s funny anyone would ask me about managing family and work life Last week after I asked what you would all like me to write about here, two readers asked for ideas on how I manage the whole work-life balance thing. My first thought was that I kind of don’t. The…
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