Tag Archives: life

Be your own Guru

I know that I have talked about this sort of thing before but this is important. Over the last year and a half (since the launch of Amongst Sisters) I have been on a journey. It was uncomfortable, dark in … Continue reading

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Life as a bucket filler.

While explaining to a good friend how I feel about by work/ life balance I came up with a bucket analogy – My life is like being in a timed  game of ‘fill the buckets’ where there is a) Very … Continue reading

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Dear PMS, why don’t you like me?

Up until now I always felt lucky to have never ‘suffered’ from PMS (Pre Menstral Syndrome).  That time of the month has always come and gone without much of a bother. No bunnies got boiled, no kids screamed at and … Continue reading

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Doing things for fun.

So yesterday I wrote a blog about how serious life had become, how I had lost the art of ‘doing things for fun’ and how that had become very tiring.  Well, after that I went away and worked on developing … Continue reading

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Your Mojo Is Not A Boomerang, It Won’t Just Come Back.

I have no evidence to prove this little factoid as I made it up myself but don’t think that I pulled it out of nowhere. Oh no, that came from deep within my sub-consciousness, it was a message from me … Continue reading

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Don’t mind me I’m busy standing still

After talking to a number of friends over the last few weeks it appears that we are at that stage in life when things are a bit too much.  We are not young enough to have the boundless energy, time … Continue reading

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Sorry guys but I can’t ‘like’ you any more….

I subscribe to what I am beginning to believe is an unhealthy number of ‘good living’ web pages and am therefore introduced to a stream of healthy tips, tricks and tid  bits.   However, I am finding these updates increasingly depressing … Continue reading

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Suck It Up Princess

That’s such an Aussie saying, uttered at its very best by drag queens whose heels are killing them after a night on the town but which flows equally well from the mouths of babes from the burbs.  Sucking it up … Continue reading

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I am an adult because…….

Yesterday the Uk’s Daily Telegraph ran a ‘space filler’ article entitled ‘The 50 signs that you are a grown up” and even though I read it thinking it was rather silly I felt compelled to think through what was written……. … Continue reading

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Happiness Vs Neediness

I’ve been mulling this idea over in my head, it’s about the link between happiness – how happy we feel and our wants. My idea is fairly simple, wanting in its self seems to be quite a positive thing, propelling … Continue reading

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