Celebrating the beautiful simplicity of Advent

This was published originally in The Catholic Weekly at the start of Advent.   With the start of Advent we begin a new Church year and it’s tempting to make some new year’s resolutions, starting with making this our family’s best Advent season ever. A quick look around the internet and talk to friends yields…

Little family, big job

This is my column recently published in The Catholic Weekly.   In his first official homily as the new Archbishop of Sydney, Archbishop Anthony Fisher certainly painted an inspiring 20-year vision for the Catholic Church in Sydney (which should benefit the whole city). In part, he said that he hoped by the time he retired…

Busy? Yeah, me too.

    This was my column published recently in The Catholic Weekly (under a different headline though!).   I’ve been a little obsessed lately with the idea of time management and just trying to work out how best to use my days. Clearly most of my time is spent on physically caring for young children,…

Living the village life

  My column recently published in The Catholic Weekly. “Do you want to meet up for coffee?” I texted my friend the other day. “I feel like a hermit.” For a week or two which included a couple of small work commitments and two of the kids getting sick, on top of my usual running…