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MY YEAR ON A WIM

I started Wim Hoff breathing about a year ago. Yep, you guessed it, on a whim. Wim Hoff is a Dutch guy who claims to be able to hack the human immune system using a breathing and retention sequence. I am someone who was diagnosed as having asthma in my 40s. I was told byContinue reading “MY YEAR ON A WIM”

SO THAT WAS XMAS

I hate Xmas. I am always thrilled when it is over. At least, I think I am. Maybe I am just being contrary. It has been known. I don’t understand why people like the songs that are playing in the shops. I can’t fathom why Father Xmas persists in wandering around in an itchy redContinue reading “SO THAT WAS XMAS”

A REALLY ANGRY BIRD

There is a small, angry bird in my neighborhood. I have come to know her quite well over the past few months. I first came across her in a local park when she dive-bombed me. She is a grey finch with yellow markings. She reminds me a bit of a woodchuck – or at leastContinue reading “A REALLY ANGRY BIRD”

TINKERBELL ROAMS FREE

Self-development media is full of helpful hints about how to make a life transition painlessly. One that is often featured is, when we are working out what might be our future calling, we should revisit our childhood dreams. Ask ourselves, what did we dream of doing when we grew up? Which is fine. Except, ifContinue reading “TINKERBELL ROAMS FREE”

FALLING INTO HANDSTAND

This last week, I’ve had to learn that it really is okay to slow down. I am talking about laying aside the habits of a life working, doing and making up for lost time. Lots of women feel this way from what they tell me. We lay aside the things we want because of caringContinue reading “FALLING INTO HANDSTAND”

I AM AN ARCHAEOLOGIST, PERIOD!

If the use of contemporary menstrual products over the course of a lifetime was considered a suitable PHD topic I would be a doctor of menstruation at least four times over. I have been menstruating – regularly – for more than 4 decades. The previous sentence does not contain a typo. Nobody in the medicalContinue reading “I AM AN ARCHAEOLOGIST, PERIOD!”

CURLY HAIR AND I.T. UPDATES -EQUALLY UNPREDICTABLE

I’ve been wearing my hair curly for a few weeks now. I haven’t suddenly become an afficionado of the curly hair movement. I’ve just been trying to disguise a really bad haircut. While I’ve discovered that, since the last time I wore my hair curly, the products are tons better and I can make myContinue reading “CURLY HAIR AND I.T. UPDATES -EQUALLY UNPREDICTABLE”

NON CAMINO

Last night, I knocked up against a white fan shaped shell about the same size as the palm of my hand, that hangs from a rack in my bathroom. A red cross is hand drawn on it. It’s the one in the picture (along with a small selection of my hair products). For anyone whoContinue reading “NON CAMINO”

WRITERS GOTTA WRITE

A couple of years ago, I decided to get serious about writing, I went to a writer’s retreat and I actually managed to finish a first draft of a book called Dreams, Schemes and Flying Machines. Then I wrote another draft and another draft. By then I hated it. Now it’s sitting, not in theContinue reading “WRITERS GOTTA WRITE”

AFGHANS, YOGIS AND DREAMINGS

I’ve lived in the Northern Territory twice. It is the sort of place where you can feel other people’s dreaming pulsing in the air. The dreams of Afghans trading, far away from home. Aboriginal peoples’ dreamings. The dreams of people new to the frontier. I quickly discovered in the Territory was how hard it isContinue reading “AFGHANS, YOGIS AND DREAMINGS”