With thanks… Sunday January 1… BR day 49… 11,520 steps… Happy New Year! All is quiet, on new year’s day… Today I am grateful for the quiet of a morning that dawned softly grey and misty, and blissfully silent in our little Sydney apartment… Part of me feels excited at the magic of a new
In this magical time, after the summer solstice, Christmas and Boxing Day, but before the new year… In the enchantment of this inbetween time – between celebrations, between years, between moments, between versions of our selves… In these golden moments I wish for all of us peace and clarity and strength. I wish for all
This month I am grateful for time with my beloved, fun with the Story Queens, festive gatherings and a magical summer solstice... It’s shorter than usual cos I'm trying to catch up! With thanks… Thursday December 1… BR day 18… 10,519 steps… Today I am grateful for a day to plan tomorrow’s Story Queens online
This month I am grateful that I hit my 50,000 word count for NaNoWriMo, and for an awesome writing retreat with the Story Queens, and for new beginnings (okay, that one is a little bit of an exaggeration, but I'm trying to look at the silver lining of losing my job)... With thanks… Sunday November
This week I am so grateful to be back "home" in Glastonbury, the mystical Isle of Avalon With thanks… Friday November 4… NaNoWriMo day 4 – 628 words… Today I am grateful for coming home – to our home away from home… The day dawned soft and silver and wet, and we packed up our
Travelling from Wales to England, via a few more ancient monuments, to stay in the place where Jane Austen lived – the perfect place to start writing for NaNoWriMo :-) With thanks… Tuesday November 1… NaNoWriMo day 1 – 1033 words… Today I am grateful for the kindness of strangers… It wasn’t our favourite morning
Heading down south and into the mists. So much myth and magic in Wales... With thanks… Thursday October 27… Today I am grateful for perseverance (cue Terrorvision song)… I was sad to leave Anglesey this morning, and it seemed it was sad to see us go too (ha!), cos the clouds were low and black,
Beautiful Anglesey, off the north west coast of Wales, aka Ynys Mon, the Druid’s Isle... With thanks… Sunday October 23… Today I am grateful for an awesome day with Juz, exploring the Neolithic monuments of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) – this island has the highest concentration of prehistoric sites in Wales – and enjoying the gorgeous
The beautiful Pembrokeshire coastline was gorgeous, and there were a few significant ancient monuments too... With thanks… Tuesday October 18… When we get home we’ll laugh about today, and how awful it was. I hope. People think travelling is so glamorous, so fun all the time, but there are bad days, and frustrating days, and
After a long plane trip to London, our excellent adventure begins! With thanks… Saturday October 15… Wishing everyone much love, joy and magic on this beautiful full moon night. May its sweet light illuminate you with inspiration and inner wisdom this month, and inspire you to work towards your dreams and goals... We're on a
The first two weeks of October were a crazy chaotic mess of magazine deadlines, last-minute booking for our magical trip to Wales, BodyCombat every day, and spending as much time as possible with Mum, who was here for a few days before we left… Saturday October 1… New moon blessings! Wishing everyone love, joy, inspiration
This month I am grateful for a beautiful eleventh anniversary with my beloved, to everyone who sponsored me for Steptember, and for the Into the Mists Trilogy ebook becoming available... With thanks… Thursday September 1… H&C day 25 – 13,322 steps… New moon blessings… Wishing everyone all the love, energy and inspiration of the new
This month I am grateful to my sweet hubby for doing the 40 Hour Famine with me, and to everyone who sponsored us... With thanks… Monday August 1… Pump… Today I am grateful that I squeezed in a Pump workout before work… I’m glad I got lots done at the magazines – sent a mag
This month I am grateful for my Camp NaNoWriMo buddies, glad I got so much work done on Into the Storm, and happy my ankle kinda healed so I could get back to my BodyPump and BodyCombat hybrid... With thanks… Friday July 1… Camp NaNoWriMo day 1 – 2000 words… Happy Day 1 of Camp
This month I am grateful for a trip to Perth for my first Supanova there – and a chance to visit my family – and to Juz for helping me so much with, well, everything, and to Selina for a fun Sydney Supanova... With thanks… Wednesday June 1… Today I am grateful for the beauty
This month I am grateful for Body Pump and Body Combat, for a visit from a faraway friend, for the release of the beautiful hardcover Into the Mists Trilogy, for an awesome four days at the Mind Body Spirit Festival, and a fun online launch with author Felicity Pulman... With thanks… Sunday May 1… Today
This month I am grateful for Camp NaNoWriMo – and another 32,000 words written of Rhiannon's story – and for just how stubborn I am, and determined... And I'm grateful for high tea with a sweet friend, and my sweet hubby's endless patience when I'm writing... With thanks… Friday April 1… Jillian day 5 +
This month I am grateful that I could raise money for brilliant causes by taking part in three challenges - and yes, the nothing but water to drink for two weeks was infinitely harder than the walk 65km in a week challenges :-) I am grateful to everyone who sponsored me, and to my sweet
This month I am grateful for the beauty of Sydney and its gorgeous parks, a new (Chinese) year, catch-ups with my writer friends on the Central Coast, surviving two stupidly crazy weeks at the magazines, and finally getting to catch up on a little bit of sleep... With thanks… Monday February 1… Jillian day 22…
This month I am grateful for sweet birthday celebrations with my beloved, a new year (well, the western one anyway), Jillian Michaels, Body Pump and Body Combat, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, work on the Into the Mists encyclopaedia, the beauty of the huge golden full moon sailing across the sky and peeking out from
