As I write this blog post, the irony is not lost on me that it is only now, as Melbourne enters day 165 of various lockdowns, that I have finally had the time to do what is so important to me. For when life is "normal" my days are filled with running around, chores, dancing, [...]
Today my kids start a sort of new school year, we're calling it Year 3/5 and three quarters. It's been 107 days to be exact since they last arrived at the school gates. For the past seven months, they have had a mere three weeks of physical school attendance. Most of their [...]
My children are living through unprecedented times. Their conscious brain has developed sufficiently to always remember the corona virus pandemic, yet they are young enough that their minds will forget the intricacies of the day to day details. One day they will want to look back and recall what daily life was like. With 2020 [...]
Time is a funny thing. On the one hand, we all know realistically that time stops for no-one...not the rich nor the poor, not the sick nor the healthy, not those wishing for more time in the day...not those willing the hours to go by faster. And then there is "time in our lives". This [...]
