This is the true story of my holiday break. No names have been changed. Not even the German Shepherd, whose known as Jetta. Leading up to Christmas and onward to New Year, I planned to develop the plot to my novel set in the 1990s. My husband was working from home so it was the …
New York, 2005
In 2005, we were on a world trip. We took advantage of what used to be 'ten stops on three continents' airline tickets. These days it's only five stops for three continents. https://youtu.be/xWbXopyh7j8 Our seventh stop was New York. When we arrived, our global roaming didn't kick in as the US was still using an …
Leaving my laptop behind
I'm about to leave on an extended break. As a writer I had already decided my laptop, Huey (yes, he has a name), was coming with me. My husband was also considering bringing his. We both have matching laptops, just in different colours. We weren't trying to be a sickly sweet couple when we bought …
Our Christmas tree
It's time for a confession. Some years our Christmas tree doesn't go up. We may have to travel to see family straight after working all the way up to the holidays so, as no one is going to visit, it stays in its box in the garage. Maybe I'm getting older and sentimental, or maybe …
The lost art of reminiscing.
We went to a slide show. Not your 1970s type where those 'celluloid in a plastic frame' images were projected on a wall. It was a modern 'stick the flash drive thing' into that monitor in the lounge room that also has a television tuner in it. With wine in hand, we watched a friend's trip …
