I recently did a guest post on Mamamia.com as part of post natal depression awareness week. What do you think? http://www.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-cares/post-natal-depression-awareness-week-2/

Last week I took The Boy to the zoo again. We’ve been teaching him the animals and to help him we’ve been doing baby signs (or our version of them) to go along with the words. His favourites is the elephant which we do with a big floppy arm wave for the trunk, along with […]

A few months ago I had the wonderful task of being a judge on the Written Portraits writing competition for thirteen to eighteen year olds. This week I’m going to the launch of the book of the winners. I can’t wait to see who has been chosen. I have my favourite. Fingers crossed for her. […]

You might think that giving small amounts to medical research is pretty much a waste of time. What difference can $100 make? To make any sort of headway researchers need millions not hundreds. That is one way of looking at it. Here is another. If you’ve read Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell you’ll be familiar […]

We’ve all been there. Using facebook when we’ve had one or two light sherbets. The next day you feel a tinge of embarrassment, but then you move on. Well one of the lesser known pitfalls for the psychotic woman in the twenty teens is the dangers of facebooking while hallucinating and delusional. In Week Six […]