Month: February 2016

  • playing with my food

    The heat of summer has left me with little appetite for heavy food. I decided to return to a mostly vegetable diet for a few weeks and I’ve enjoyed it. I’m channeling my heritage with these ‘recipes’ that are not terribly precise, so please forgive me! I nearly always have carrots in the fridge, and in…

  • it’s a bird eat bird world out there!

    Most of Australia seems to have had atypical summer weather. Here in the Red Centre of the country, we had turned mostly green from higher than normal rainfall. But now things are turning golden and brown again as we settle back into hot, dry summer weather. As with all climates, when the weather changes, the…

  • my experience with a personal trainer

    I’ve cleaned our house for years, not because I love cleaning, but because I love a clean and orderly place in which to live. And when it comes to exercise, it is not much different. I don’t love exercise, but I love an orderly and responsive working body! Back in September of 2015, I started working…