on the edge of ordinary

I read a book a couple of months ago called Looking for God  by Nancy Ortberg. I rediscovered it when I was trawling through old blog posts ...

Birthday present from one of my sons! A birthday On Monday I celebrated another birthday. I've had a lot of them now! It was a busy day ...

I'm not excited about writing this blog post, but it's a tradition that I've done since my very first January of writing this bl...

A disclaimer here to start: my life isn't that hard at the moment, and it has never really been majorly hard! (Not in the ballpark of an...

I finally got myself back to the gym this morning. Ever since my husband was in hospital in the latter half of November (followed by family ...

The last ten days have been full of some ugly stuff for us. Three of the things that have entered our lives, via people we love, are stories...

Usually I share my own words here, but I've come across some good words of others in the last 24 hours that I want to share. First is...

Bushfires in New South Wales, typhoons in the Philippines, Japan, Vietnam and Guam, mudslides in Japan, floods in Japan, hail storms in Quee...

Forgiving myself is something that's been on my mind in recent weeks. I've wanted to write about it, but haven't had the words. ...

Yesterday I went on a day trip to a place south of Yokohama called Kamakura. It is about 60km south of here. Kamakura is a small town that w...