This is a transcript of a podcast I recently recorded for the radio show, The Journey. It’s part of a series I do and it’s kind of a two-minute pep talk for frazzled parents. Do you have a team behind you? I’m not talking about a sports team or a work team, but your parent-support team. Parenting is…
NaNoWriMo-induced absence
No time for blogging, Facebook, or watching Star Trek movies with my husband these days. On top of my regular gigs I’m writing a novel as part of the National Novel Writing Month. I’m 8000 words in and it’s exciting to see what can be done in an hour a day, even in 10 or 15 minute bursts here…
Sustainability, ethics, and social media
My recent column as published in The Catholic Weekly. We bought a second-hand dining setting last week, it’s very modern, fairly new, and cheaper than any we could have bought from the shops. It got me thinking about how much we recycle, reuse, and reduce. We don’t go to any great effort or really think…
Want to draw some peace into your parenting? You could start with Sundays.
How was last Sunday? Do Sundays stand out in your family, or do entire weekends just pass by in a blur of shopping, chores, socialising, sports, maybe church, ending in a frantic rush to get things ready for Monday morning? As Christians we know that Sunday is supposed to be day of rest, but have…
