Balancing work and life are not always easy. For working parents, it can be a series of grueling choices. Choices that are laden with guilt and judgement at every turn. With almost 15 years’ experience as a working mum now chalked up, I negotiate this for the most part with the expected amount of grace. […]
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First published on SMALLVILLE 28 January 2017 It’s Australia Day 2017. I’d planned to head out to a magnificent festival but instead I’m at home, waiting for a plumber to arrive. No, it’s not an emergency rush job, I’m waiting for a plumber to arrive to fix the work he did last week that didn’t
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Happy Christmas eve to you folks. My early gift to me is time, space and state of mind to start writing again. Truth is I just haven’t felt like writing for an incredibly long time. I could say it’s because I’ve been busy with other things and thinking, and I have. But this is certainly
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Nancy Sposato is a regional Australian, a performer, creative industries business owner and mum of two. Join us for a conversation about juggling being a mum in business whilst maintaining your own wellbeing, adapting diverse skills to earn an income in a smaller pond, and gaining and maintaining connection with clients and community. Nancy is a performer in
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It’s raining outside, it’s Saturday, there is a roast cooking in the oven, the kids are quiet and I’m sitting, fireside writing. I don’t get a lot of time like this. Just call me Larry because I really am that happy in this moment. Capturing this bliss on a ‘normal’ day is pretty impossible between the
While having the pleasure of traveling with my family for the past three weeks I had the opportunity to just notice some things. Most of the noticing made me very proud, some curious and some of it absolutely and utterly perplexed. Among this confusion is the notion of initiative. For the first four days husband
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Since coming to terms with my 41 year old self and the drama that ensued I’m absolutely and utterly amazed in the breadth of other things I now take time to think about. Among them a list of practical things I’d have liked to know many, many years ago. What can you add to the
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2015 was one of those years. We all have them, I’m not feeling sorry for myself. It was a year where lots of shiz went down, and fortunately I’m wiser for it. Now that’s out of the way we can talk about focus. As I was walking Rella Brazella this morning I was thinking about
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“But the fact remains that you’re not going to totally get over it. It’s just too big, too consequential. The pain will always be there. It’s one of the many rotten things about life: the way it becomes an accumulation of griefs, both big and small. But survivors – and sweetheart, you definitely fall into that
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This morning I awoke to a massive realisation. I realised that there’s a fine line between being brave enough to seek support And to fall into the drama trap I realised that there is a difference between the problems that every human experiences from time to time And the same problems that recycle again and
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