Dumpsville ponderings

Life is BUSY.
Unfortunate timing, as I’m experiencing a distinct funk at present, leaving me utterly drained. I’m an exhausted, heaving assemblage of emotional debris.
I have a residential week at University starting on Monday, (while working at night to keep things at the office on-track). As my dissatisfaction with my current professional role slowly smolders towards [...]

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Technology runs my life!

I hate to admit it, but sometimes it seems that we have too much technology.
We’ve become so connected that we’re expected to respond to eveything in real-time. Far from remaining business tools, our ICT systems have become our captors, enslaving us to an oppressive existance. Hopelessly dependent on instant gratifaction, we’ve become information junkies. We [...]

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Fish – needs bicycle

Searching for a partner can be a traumatic experience. Often we look for partners that will complete us, not complement us. We say it all the time:

‘he completes me’
‘she’s my better half’

Besides being nauseating company, becoming achingly-co-dependent is dangerous.
When rely on others to fulfil us, we allow others to make us miserable. [...]

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Manic, who me?!

I frequently wax lyrical about the depths of despair I plummet to when depressed, but there’s a reason I fight the need to medicate my bipolar disorder – mania.
For me, when I’m experiencing it – a manic episode is a beautiful, beautiful thing. For those trying to live with me while I’m experiencing it – [...]

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Mother’s Day

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I can’t help but be moved by what it means to be a Mum.
Being a Mum is a tough gig. The hours are unreasonable, the workload is unrelenting, and your achievements frequently go unnoticed. I recall one particularly teary early morning feed where I deduced that whoever coined [...]

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2009: the story so far

In the business analysis world, we have regular performance reviews against business plans and so on. This systematic holding-to-account forces a refocus of energy and resources on achieving an organisation’s top priorities.
So, given that governance is what I DO professionally, with March now behind us, I thought it was time I held a quarterly review [...]

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Broken limbs, for broken people

My son broke his arm playing at school his week. Poor little lamb. For the next few weeks there’ll be no football, no swimming, and no softball. He’s taking it pretty hard.
On the upside, it has been rather nice to have a couple of days off work for the sole purpose of devoting time to [...]

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I’m a quitter

I’ve quit my Education for Ministry class. The first session for the year was supposed to be tonight, but I’ve withdrawn.
I concede that my rationale sounds incredibly selfish, (because it is), but I only get one evening a week sans children. After completing my first year and struggling with the idea of going back through-out [...]

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# Top 5: Ways to spend a partnerless evening

Whether you’re sans-family for the evening, your partner is out of town, or you’re single and looking for something to do, here’s my Top 5 list of things to do with your night to yourself!
1. Curl up with your favourite DVD and a bottle of wine.
Sex and the City. West Wing. Bridget Jones. Frasier. Whether [...]

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Wild, crazy ideas: Write your obit!

Want more meaning in your life? Write your own obituary.
Oh, sure, it SOUNDS crazy. But is it?
At the end of it all, if you had lived the life you wanted, what would be said about you at your funeral? What would the focus of your life have been?
Writing your own obituary focuses your mind on [...]

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