May 16, 2013 I have been particularly lamenting my non-musician life this past week after going to John Butler’s benefit concert.

May 16, 2013 “You’re already pretty enough,” I tell my children, but wave the powder brush over their faces to keep them happy.

May 16, 2013 NEVER let an engineer loose in your home. Our home has been turned on its head since my husband took over the household and the children.

April 18, 2013 I THINK my muscles have amnesia. That, or whoever said muscles have memory was lying.

April 15, 2013 I ARRIVED in Australia in the 80s from a different culture and knowing not a word of English. As a sprightly nearly-five-year-old I learned the language and lost any form of an accent within months, so in my mind, Australia was a welcoming country.

March 28, 2013 ALL those years ago a flighty cadet journalist, with a head full of wild imaginings, entered a world of film cameras, floppy disks and manual cut-and-paste layout (with actual scissors!).  

December 6, 2012 EVER since Prince William married Kate Middleton and captured the hearts and imaginations of little girls the world over, I have insisted on my daughter calling me Princess Kate.