Glennon and Abby What is it with these famous middle-aged women authors who write about their wonderful lives and marriages, giving us advice on how to improve our relationships and this elusive happiness we are all seeking….like Glennon Doyle (Untamed etc) and Elizabeth Gilbert (Big Magic, East Pray Love etc) to name just two – and then they become lesbians. It’s like … [Read more...]
Second Careers
Famous America artist Granny Moses only started painted at 76 years old. There is this feeling at 50 that we are too late to start something new, that we need to simply accept what we are doing and sail into our retirement…we simply let our dreams go. You know all those saying: You can’t teach a dog new tricks; It’s too late, the ship has sailed; If I was going to do it, … [Read more...]
Covid Guilt
Broadbeach - the start of Covid isolation for me - when the pool and schools closed The Corona Virus could be my fault. I prayed for something to happen to enable me to have a long holiday at home with my teenage sons - where we did not have to get up at 4am every day for Swim training, where I didn’t have to go to work every day, and rush around in the same hectic single … [Read more...]
Swim Mums’ Rules
RULES for the SWIM MUM Nobody expects to be a swim mum. We hear that swimming opens up a child’s lungs and all this water-safety-for-children lures us in. Next thing, it’s squad training three times a week, and before you know it, we are up way before 4am every morning for the swim run, waiting two hours, then rushing home – only to repeat in the late afternoon. We … [Read more...]
Days of our Lives
This is possibly the scariest time of my life. My dad is back in hospital, where he has been on and off for over a year now, and he describes himself as being on the pointy end of life. My mum is lonely and isolated in the north of Scotland due to circumstances. And my teenage sons are becoming increasingly independent and in 18 months, the eldest will be driving so they will … [Read more...]