I was recently in Melbourne for a couple of days visiting a friend from a million years ago, catching up with each other and meeting the new bloke, old cat and new dog, and generally sighing and laughing on that bridge under which so much water has passed. Now as you know, I read Holocaust [...]
Vipassana is a technique of meditation which you learn over the first 10 day retreat. It isn’t a religion and it doesn’t pretend to be a cult. It is a way of stilling the self and marrying your mind and your body to the present moment. But it’s no good learning it, as I did [...]
Big apologies for missing last week’s post. I was up to my karmic eyeballs in meditating upon my breath very specifically making the little triangle at the bottom of my nose hot and cold. Click on the picture to go to the page and find out about Dhamma Aloka, where I just spent 10 days. [...]
By the time you are reading this post, I will be sitting in a meditation hall along with maybe 100 other sitters trying to sit still and focus on breathing. click on the book to go to Tim Parks’ website I’ll be doing this up to 8 times a day for an hour each time. [...]
In Part 2 of our profile on Maureen Clifford, she decided to get out of a financially-challenging situation by furthering her education. She was a young widow with 2 children who went on to study full-time at a university. In Part 3, she reveals how she rose from Accountancy Graduate to where she is [...]
This week we continue with Maureen’s climb out of the situation of being a single mother with 2 children on the Widow’s Benefit to becoming a full-time studying mum at University. Her story shows how determination, discipline and extraordinary stamina are the often unsung strengths of a single mother to make a better life [...]
This week, we are so lucky to hear from Maureen Clifford, CEO of Ndevr (not an affiliate link btw). She responded to a call-out by womanglow for older women who would share their stories on financial lessons learnt in life. (I never expected a top-notch business-woman to answer my call nor to be so absolutely generous [...]
I was born in Brisbane and I lived there for the first 20 years of my life so what did I know? After that I lived all around Oz and then started living O/S. And I can’t live in big cities EVER AGAIN. And I’ll show you why…. Here’s where I lived in 1992-3, Istanbul, [...]
As you may or may not know, I have been reading Holocaust literature for the last 3 years, since my old married days in Katherine NT – and I really can’t tell you why. I can tell you that I am NOT interested in reading about AH the madman or glory stories of WW2 [...]
So – budgeting? Here I am at 54 – I’m going to be 55 this year – woo hoo! But my inner child is still a maniac at the wheel I’m noticing. Let me share my insights. When living on the dole which is $250 a week and unlivable – and I don’t even pay [...]
I was recently in Melbourne for a couple of days visiting a friend from a million years ago, catching up with each other and meeting the new bloke, old cat and new dog, and generally sighing and laughing on that bridge under which so much water has passed. Now as you know, I read Holocaust [...]
Vipassana is a technique of meditation which you learn over the first 10 day retreat. It isn’t a religion and it doesn’t pretend to be a cult. It is a way of stilling the self and marrying your mind and your body to the present moment. But it’s no good learning it, as I did [...]
Big apologies for missing last week’s post. I was up to my karmic eyeballs in meditating upon my breath very specifically making the little triangle at the bottom of my nose hot and cold. Click on the picture to go to the page and find out about Dhamma Aloka, where I just spent 10 days. [...]
By the time you are reading this post, I will be sitting in a meditation hall along with maybe 100 other sitters trying to sit still and focus on breathing. click on the book to go to Tim Parks’ website I’ll be doing this up to 8 times a day for an hour each time. [...]
In Part 2 of our profile on Maureen Clifford, she decided to get out of a financially-challenging situation by furthering her education. She was a young widow with 2 children who went on to study full-time at a university. In Part 3, she reveals how she rose from Accountancy Graduate to where she is [...]
