Shop to the beat or stress till you’re beat? I rang a friend to tell her something. She was in her local supermarket and asked me to speak up because she couldn’t hear me over the live piano music playing. I obliged but after hanging up I had a quiet chuckle about how this incident […]
Who is in control?
I had a weird dream about losing control the other night. I rarely remember my dreams but this one seemed real. When I woke up I ached from the tension. My jaw was tight and I was agitated. In my dream three situations had caused me total frustration. I dreamed I’d designed a new mobility […]
Barbie and God: Final post as Director of Baptist Women
In February I wrote about change and how we need to expect it, accept it and move with it. This entry is such a change opportunity because it was the last article I wrote for the Baptist News as Director of Baptist Women. One way to look at it Some will be disappointed because there […]
Nothing stays the same
Say that again!At a neighbourhood dinner party recently I was sharing my healthy green drink recipe. The conversation stopped when I said, “ … and you mix it for 30 seconds in the vitamiser”. The room remained quiet until someone worked out that I was talking about a blender. A week later my son and […]
It’s that time again
Top speed I can’t believe how fast this year has gone. I remember saying this last year and the year before. It’s getting harder to look back over the years and distinguish one year from the next. Births, deaths and marriages are still my touchstones because they are very personal. We had a family wedding […]