I’ll start by populating it with snippets from my diaries in past years. Then I guess, working backwards, at some point we’ll end up in the present. But don’t worry about that just yet. Think of it as being drip-fed momentary flashes from the last few years of my thoughts and feelings on daily life, work and parenting. Like my life in the last six years, these snippets travel from the south east coast of Australia to the capital of Finland. Sometimes they’re funny. Sometimes…Continue Reading “Hi! So you got what you asked for. I started a blog.”

“STUFF-MAKER”  When I left regional Australia at 19, I didn’t imagine a decade later I’d be setting up a circus 15km from the Syrian border and spending my remaining time reading the news on national TV. In Finland. There’s a lengthy backstory. For the sake of brevity, let’s just say that, as a foreign freelancer in Finland, I needed to capitalize on ALL of my skills. Those skills just happened to range from wearing a tutu, to pulling off a passable BBC newsreader impression, both…Continue Reading “Blog the 1st.”