on the edge of ordinary

Here's one I prepared earlier. I don't know how: I had an awful headache at the time!  It was the day we had a meet and say farewe...

School starts again two weeks tomorrow. Our days are quite lazy at present. The boys' bedtimes are close to ours and breakfast is mostl...

This is something I've been trying to remind myself of for many years now. Particularly in response to bad behaviour, but occasionally I...

It's hard to believe that it's nearly two weeks since we returned from our latest camping trip. We had a rough start, boys were unco...

One story from our transition that stands out was a scary encounter with Japanese immigration. We flew on five planes in nine days, thr...

This is the metaphor that's been in my head these last few days as we've arrived in Japan and began to resettle. I wrote that tit...

Grocery shopping is one thing that is the same . . . and very different about my two lives (in Australia and Japan). In Australia fo...