“I love your body.” How often has someone said THAT to you? If you’re lucky, a lover has (and you received it with grace and appreciation and belief). But it’s… [Continue Reading]
Category: my journey
Sweet Sugar – Manis Gula
In Indonesia, the customary manner of greeting and also of saying goodbye is that if you are the younger person you gently hold the older person’s right hand and lift… [Continue Reading]
Spectrum
Do you remember the story of Black Beauty? I’ll never forget the tears streaming down my face when he was separated from his friend Ginger, nor the horrible images of… [Continue Reading]
Dodgy Dudes (part 3)
Living in a foreign country is a lot more complicated than just holidaying there. Especially in a country like Indonesia where rules are ambiguous and goal posts constantly move. And… [Continue Reading]
Dodgy Dudes (part 2)
The next man to pierce my thin skin was a ‘friend’ of Made’s who came to live with us. Let’s call him Nane. Late last year Nane begged Made to… [Continue Reading]
Dodgy Dudes (part 1)
We live in a world of dishonesty. It’s awful but true. I wish I had thicker skin to cope with it. Sadly, three of the most significant men in my… [Continue Reading]
A new home in just three months! Really?
I’m living in The Land of Three Months, aka Indonesia. That’s how long everything seems to take here. I’m told it will again take three months to get my next… [Continue Reading]
Yogi shemogi
It was my friend’s first ever yoga class. I’d been encouraging her for a while and, even though she was still apprehensive, she’d finally said yes. We went together on… [Continue Reading]
Around the next corner – buying land in Indonesia
The Next Road on this Journey called Life (warning: another marathon bloggy) At Christmas time I was lucky enough to go to England to spend it with my amazing daughter,… [Continue Reading]
Childhood freedoms
Forty years ago. One October, when I was six, my family left Holland and arrived in Australia, a land of salty air and big skies, plenty of space and warm… [Continue Reading]