“What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick…
A Colourful Life: Hello January 2022
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life,…
A Colourful Life: Goodbye 2021
Well it was better than last year wasn’t it. If we had to compare the two, although still with it’s…
This Week’s Moments of Gratitude: Books, Plays and Holiday Games
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls…
A Colourful Life: Why I Write
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.…
Book of the Week: Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Happiness is not good for the economy. We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves.” ― Matt Haig, Notes on…
A Colourful Life: Christmas Day
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be…
A Colourful Life: The Monkey Mind
It’s Tuesday afternoon and I am all alone. The children are with their Grandparents and Joel has nipped out to…
Honest Motherhood: The Messy Colourful Blur of 2021
How we have reached the end of this year quite so quickly I do not know. 2021 has been a…
Book of the Week: Light is the New Black: A Guide to Answering Your Soul’s Callings and Working Your Light
“No one has ever had the complete, perfect plan. There is no end destination. There is no right or wrong…
The Colourful Kind 