Milestone complete!

Life has been extremely busy over the past few weeks, hence my lack of blogging! My time has been spent frolicking at the beach, well not really more chauffeuring and spectating while our two youngest boys competed in surfing competitions. From one five day competition to another and another three day competition this weekend. I […]

Empowering Children with safety strategies!

I started writing the book about my sisters kidnapping for two reasons. One because I love writing and two because I knew her story needed to be told. Well I have always been a little focused on child safety for obvious reasons really. My children would say I am way over protective, maybe I am, […]

Returning to the past!

We ventured over to a place where life changed forever. A town with memories we wish could be left behind, but know they cannot and should not. The journey over felt eerie, weird! Our first stop was the Library archive, to gather photos, information, anything that would assist us in obtaining a better understanding about […]

Wednesday 5th of June 2019

We boarded a plane: destination Sydney! I can’t quite put into words how I am feeling about this trip; my mother and I are making. I wouldn’t quite call it a mother, daughter bonding time. Our purpose is for research, to gather information from that dreadful day on Thursday 3rdof June 1971. The day my […]

Breaking the stereotype

There were two defining moments when I knew the story of my sisters abduction needed to be told. Today I will share one: I knew the time had come that our two youngest children, should hear in more detail about my sisters abduction. For no other reason than they needed to the know the reality […]

A moment to commend my mother on this mothers day!

With the desire to write the story of my sisters abduction, I knew the first hurdle would be if my family wanted, or even could revisit that day 48years ago. I made the phone call informing mum, that I believe this story is an extraordinary one that needs to be shared. To my mum’s credit […]

One from the vault!

What is life, if you live without hope and happiness it would be like taking away the scent of the rose and expecting its beauty to be the same but the whole essence of it has vanished. Written 11/11/1995

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Wife, Mother, Teacher, Writer soon to be Author

I am a teacher, writer and soon to be author! But first and foremost I am a wife and a mother. I find it interesting that the first three I am’s… seem to hold the most weight in society as to who I am and how important I am, but to me its being a […]

The writing journey begins

Everything feels new, strange, the world of writing and blogging is so foreign, but exciting. There is an overload of information out there on how to write a book, what to do, what not to do and how to do it! I just want to write, but it does not come easy. I still remember […]