Like many Australians, I’ve always adored the Hunters and Collectors song, Throw Your Arms Around Me… there’s a particular line in that song that is resonating with me at the moment. “Shed your skin and let’s get started.” That line could have a hundred different meanings for a thousand different people, but for me… It’s not about love, or anyone…
The War Time Story of My Great Great Grandfather On the night of Tuesday October 12, 1915, 23 year old farmer James Gerald Cameron sat down to write a short, one page letter to his sister. It was raining and he likely balanced the sheet of paper on his knee, as the pencilled lines and uneven words wander and dip…
It’s March 2020, and the pandemic has just begun… Every morning I wake up and there’s that few seconds before reality hits, where I think it’s just another normal day… but clearly it’s not. I’ve started wondering if that will change… if I’ll wake up one day soon, and know instantly that life is a little different now and this…
Happy Birthday baby girl. Our angel baby, our rainbow child. It’s a special year this one… and I wanted to tell you a few things. Honouring your legacy has become a bit of an obsession since I moved to Newcastle 16 years ago, and it seems the people of this beautiful city feel that I deserve some recognition. On Australia…
Every year, the month of February can be a little emotionally challenging for me. Tomorrow will be the 24th of February 2019 and my first born child Jessica, would have been 32 years old. The weeks leading up to this day can often be harder than the day of her birth itself. I’m not really sure why, perhaps it’s the…
Writing about my grandfather has been on my mind for a few years. On a few different occasions I had thought about starting this blog, but I never quite reached the point where I felt it was something I needed to do… until now. We lost this generous, kind soul from our family at 5.00am on the 23rd of March…
It’s the eve of the 29th anniversary of the worst day of my life as a new mother. It was on 20th June 1987, I received a phone call at 4.30am in the morning…it was dark and I knew in my heart that it wasn’t going to be good news. The doctor said “You’d better get to the hospital as…
It was only a few months ago that I wrote a letter to my unborn grandchild… seems so long ago now. So much has happened since then. It’s a weird experience, there’s no denying it. One day you’re a mother, as you’ve been for the past 27 years and the next, you’re welcoming into the world, the offspring of your…
It’s December 2015 and it’s only weeks away now before I get to meet you… For now, you’re safely cocooned in your Mumma’s belly. You’re hearing the sound of her voice and your Dad’s, constantly. You’re feeling the vibrations of the outside world through your loving parents. The sound of their voices, the energy of their everyday life is preparing you for…
I was ten years old when we moved to Darwin in the middle of 1974. Our family left Sydney on a high, excited about the Territorian adventure that was in front of us. A whole new way of life… Little did we know, we were in for a once in a lifetime experience.. a natural disaster of epic proportions. In…
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