Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It seemed a long wait to find out who would replace Cardinal George Pell as the Archbishop of Sydney, but the timing of the happy announcement was providential, coming as it did at the end of a tense day for our city and country. The day…
What to do when envy strikes
Popular international speaker Leah Darrow is visiting a gathering of women in a house in Arcadia in outer Sydney’s north west. I’ve been invited by a friend but I’ve also been commissioned to write an article on Leah. The former New York model chats over lunch while her husband Rick watches their first child, one-year-old Agnes, play with my younger children…
Our Mt Schoenstatt family retreat
Originally published in The Catholic Weekly. Last weekend we were fortunate enough to be able to go on a family retreat with other couples and young families hosted at the Mt Schoenstatt retreat centre in Mulgoa. I’d never been to the centre and its beautiful shrine before. It is as they say, a ‘place of…
Be a peaceful parent and stop the over-scheduling
Image by Marsel Minga One recent Saturday morning I was so stressed out just thinking about what we had to do that day. We schedule our children’s sports activities for Saturdays and so we had swimming and basketball as we usually do, but I’d also booked us all in to see our dentist whose surgery…
Marilyn Rodrigues 