Amazed… I managed to upgrade from a free blog to my own Domain name, Kate Swaffer earlier this week. It has taken me months to get the nerve to do it, and emails to girlfriends, and to the WordPress Support Team, and at long last, I have paid up and done it! I was terrified all…
The dementia is giving me the shits today (26/11/11), I feel like giving in to that bloody PLOM disease – yes, Poor Little Old Me! Fuck it, why shouldn’t I give in to it? Why shouldn’t I have an hour, a day, a week, or month of feeling like this? Well, a few moments or…
A poet can survive everything but a misprint (Oscar Wilde). Oh my gosh, I am really feeling that at the moment. My poetry book is almost out, ready for sale and I am terrified of a misprint, or that I won’t like it! I used to feel like that when lodging my university assignments on Assign…
26/11/11 – 5.15pm: So, here I am I’m writing for nanowrimo, trying to get to 50,000 words. a novel is something i have always wanted to write and get published. more than one! now the thought is quite scary, as my use of language is so impraied or disabled. remembering the words i’d like to use, the ‘big’…
My dear husband wrote in an email recently Life with you is anything but boring! He said it with love (??!!), and not too much frustration I hope. I have made active choices many times not to be boring, and life also has sent some curly situations my way to make sure my journey has…
Carol Burnett once said; Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. It most definitely seems this is true, as almost every blog I write is interpreted differently, often quite differently to the way I meant for to it to be understood. Some people pick up on the funny things; some don’t…
Nurses and carers stay bonded in friendship because we share things that others don’t. We watch strangers die, holding their hands and consoling them and their loved ones. We watch miracles take place as we help babies come into this world, seeing the rawness of love and its pure beauty. Doctors often deliver the good or bad…
Cooking with family and friends has increased my family’s sense of community and ‘family’, and the depth of the expression of our love, and today I added a gorgeous Italian chocolate biscuit Baci D’Alassio to my recipe file, the 17th so far. Since my memory has become dysfunctional, cooking together has become more of a…
I’m obviously not a true blue Aussie, and definitely not a real Adelaidian. Yesterday I accepted an invitation to the cricket with my Dear Husband (thanks for this lovely term, Robyn V) to the One Day International match between Australia and India (I had to ask what type of match we were going to and…
When I was young, I loved school so much I was often up and dressed for it by 5am, even on the weekends. We lived some way from the small country town where I attended school, departing home not long after 7am each morning, and a bus trip that lasted almost 90 minutes each way. Life…
According to Wikipedia, “fear is a distressing negative sensation induced by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. In short, fear is the ability to recognise danger leading to an urge to confront it or flee from it…
I have sometimes wondered, is Shane Warne the world’s greatest leg spin bowler also the world’s biggest twit? His off-field shallowness begs further investigation, as well as the fact he seems to have left little legacy to the sport he loved so much. On a search through international media archives, apart from the South Australian Advertiser…
A few years ago I started working as a volunteer with The Big Issue office in Adelaide, and had the great pleasure of being part of the Adelaide Fringe Parade in 2009. Since being involved with this organisation, I have been both alarmed and delighted by the responses of those in our community who are better off…
Yep, this was what I needed yesterday! And at 6.45 am this morning it arrived! I left home with friends heading for a boat called the SeaLink, and then travelled to Kangaroo Island. We’ve not seen any kangaroos yet, but loads of kangaroo poo! A midday sleep, lunch, a walk on the beach, an afternoon…
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