When you get right down to it, most perfectionists are searching for peace. Basically, we want to be able to look around at the world we’ve created and proclaim, like our Creator, “Everything is very good” and so enter into our rest. I derived my peace from sources external to myself, and I suspect most …
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Marcus Luttrell has made headlines around the world with his list of demands for anyone interested in dating his daughter. Did I mention she’s currently 2 years old?
There are two reasons why I love this Relient K song. 1) It makes me smile every time I hear that catchy tune. 2) It makes me smile every time I listen to the lyrics.
I spend so much of my time speaking to young people about choosing appropriate photos for their social media accounts, however, I am often surprised to discover how often adults post inappropriate images. I’m not talking about adult’s sexting, but simply oversharing! Oversharing their children’s naked bums, tummies, bathing habits and tantrums. A few times …
September is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Cancer Council is combatting kid’s cancers in many ways; researching cancers that impact children, such as leukaemia, brain tumours, lymphoma and many others. Data is the key to research, and that’s why Cancer Council Queensland also independently funds and manages the Australian Paediatric Cancer Registry, one of the …
1. It is not about having a state of the art camera. Whether you choose to use a top of the range DSLR; a compact pocket camera; or a mobile phone camera… it’s the content in the photo that really counts. It is often the case that when an unexpected ‘captured moment’ occurs, your ‘good’ …
I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
For a couple of weeks, I’ve handed in my title as ‘work-from-home-mum’ and replaced it with ‘working mum.’ Yep, I’m workin’ 9-5, or 8.30am-5.30pm, to be exact. In a city office.
It’s been more than 3 years since I sat in a proper office environment, with a receptionist and everything. And… no babies.
My grandfather came to Australia when he was 14 years old. He grew up in Cyprus during the war and his parents and his family (eleven brothers and sisters) were eating locusts and desert berries in order to stay alive. So my grandfather was put on a boat, leaving behind his family, he travelled to …
Let me begin this article by saying to you that this has only ever happened once to me, and I believe it was for a very specific reason. I am by no means a spiritual visionary! As I mentioned in my introduction, the first big cracks in my façade of perfection occurred with the birth …
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