Late to the party as always, but I want to address the recent and rather grim IPCC synthesis report, which essentially says that we need to act immediately if we are to save the planet from irreversible damage. I have spent the past week feeling pretty helpless. While the report…

Plus my 30 by 30 list. Just yesterday I turned 29, embarking on my 30th year on Earth! 30 years!!! I feel so much younger (and shambolic) than I thought I would when I dreamt about being 30, flirty and thriving as a child. Like many who grew up in…

2023 is going to be a big year of change and transformation. To kick things off, we’re moving to the beach a little less than a month from now! Yep, my partner and I are finally making a sea change and will be moving to Wollongong, a coastal city just…

And what I’m celebrating from 2022. Happy New Year everybody! 2023 is here and I already feel that it is going to be a great year- for growing my relationships, for going on adventures and for writing! Before I begin to look forward and challenge myself to make life even…

Hello! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas which, here in Australia, means Carols night at the local primary school, late night shopping and sunshine (!!!). Yes, after what seems like the longest Winter of my life, the sun seems to have finally admitted that we’re halfway through…

My boyfriend has just left for the beach after a morning of indecisiveness and moping from the both of us- La Niña and her friends are really getting to us now that, in mid-December, we are still waiting on consecutive sunny days. We had big plans to spend my only…

During my 100 days of sobriety, I read several books on the topic: Sober Curiosity, How to Quit Like a Woman, This Naked Mind and The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober. I would listen to them as I gardened, as I walked to work, as I ran laps of the…

Thoughts and BIG feelings from my Harry Styles era When I was thirteen, I experienced my first real crush: his name was Seth Cohen and he joined me every Thursday night through teen drama, The O.C. My admiration for this bumbling mess of a boy stemmed from the idea that…

As hard as it is to believe, especially given this week’s unusually icy temperatures, Christmas is nearly here! The older I get, the less I seem to want come Christmas time- it has got to the point where any gifts beyond a book (always, ALWAYS welcome!) …