Matters of Life & Love Reader Question: “My mother-in-law is moving to the Coast. She is very negative and can drive a wedge between my husband and I. We already fight a lot about kids, parenting and our families and I am worried this is going to make us [...]
Feeling Alone Together – Using our Emotions to Evolve Us Beyond COVID-19
On the Coast #55+ - May/June 2020 Well hasn’t life and love changed over the last few months? With the COVID-19 global pandemic our world will never be the same again. The individual and collective grief and losses are too many and too painful to inventory fully – death, [...]
The life & love legacy of COVID-19
On the Coast – 55+ (July/August 2020 Issue) The experience of COVID-19 has taught us many things about family, the importance of relationships and our home habits. Months of lockdown brought intense scrutiny and focus on the minutia of our domestic environment and skills, and for many of us, [...]
Older Sex: Best You Ever Had?
Older Sex: Best You Ever Had? Nov 2020 - #On The Coast - Seniors OK Boomers! Are you getting your ‘sexy’ on? Forget about a COVID baby boom...what better generation to be having a cuddly cupid COVID than the original generation of the sexual revolution. In fact, [...]
Goodbye Childhood. Hello Sons
Goodbye Childhood. Hello Sons December 2020 - #OntheCoast - Families For the last 12 years I have contributed to every issue of #OntheCoast - Families magazine. Today as I write this article I have decided it will be my last. Time has come to hand the baton to someone [...]
Fathers & Sons
On the Coast #55+ March 2020 Fathers & Sons The other week, in my capacity as an holistic funeral celebrant, I had to sensitively mediate two adult brothers, as they navigated the death of their father and plan his funeral. It was painful to witness them in such pain. [...]
Staying Calm in Uncertain Times.
On the Coast #Families – AprilMay 2020 Staying Calm in Uncertain Times. With the bush fires all calmed by March it seemed like finally we could exhale with relief and rebuild and resume lives and then the Coronavirus pandemic arrived. As I write this now in mid-March, by the [...]
2040 – Fact-based dreaming to create a better future.
On the Coast #Families – February March 2020 2040 – Fact-based dreaming to create a better future. Over the summer holidays our family became a bit fatigued at the stress of the bushfire emergency, the unrelenting news coverage and its link to the real climate emergency our planet is [...]
Summer of surrender – time to love and let be
On the Coast #Families – Dec/Jan 2019/20 Summer of surrender – time to love and let be It is officially Summer. School is done. Holidays are here. The weather is great…..I hope. We are busy with Christmas and New Year’s celebrations with family and friends. So why does a [...]
Aged Care Revolution – The Time to Act is Now
On the Coast +55 – Nov/Dec issue Aged Care Revolution – The Time to Act is Now With the Royal Commission into Aged Care in full swing it is hard to ignore the shocking revelations of conditions at some facilities and the stories of neglect, loneliness and despair. It’s [...]