They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. I recently caught up on all my newsletter reading. I subscribe to some excellent newsletters that give my brain something to think and ponder about. During the day, usually […]
Mid Life
I’m at an age now where I’m going through a new phase in my life and part of this journey meant that I have been re-evaluating a lot of things such as health, family, friends, relationships. What serves me, what doesn’t. What I care for and don’t. I watch my face and body change form, […]
Meta Verse Mumblings
I’m putting it out there, I’m not a fan of the meta verse. Before you say, Helen, you luddite. You haven’t even given it a CHANCE! Have you even USED Virtual Reality? Have you ever PLAYED a VR game? Have you ever made some kind of EFFORT to even UNDERSTAND the value and benefits of […]
Walt Disney Animation Exhibition
Last night we went to the Walt Disney Animation Exhibition held at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square. It was a lovely summer evening out and people were outside enjoying sunset and the various events such as the Australian Open (tennis) on nearby, the open restaurants and an outdoor swimming pool […]
Struggling Through Certain Books
‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ Just about every parent I’ve been reading a book as part of a book club by Kim Scott called Radical Candor: Be a Kick Ass Boss without Losing Your Humanity and admittedly, I’m really struggling to get through this book. I’ve read […]
Frozen
Well we finally got here in the end. We love going to different shows in Melbourne and in 2019, we found out that Frozen, The Musical would be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre. We booked tickets but the show was constantly being put on hold because of COVID lockdowns and finally, nearly 18 months later, […]
My New Back Yard Project
I wish my backyard looked like this! Last year we decided that as we can’t travel overseas, we may as well bring the overseas to us. As such, our plan was to landscape the back yard and make it into a space where we enjoy being outside. In the past, our back yard was a […]
Happy Traveller
One of the YouTube channels I’ve been getting lost in of late, are the Happy Traveller series introduced to me by my parents. The series is hosted by ever-enthusiastic and always happy, Eftichis Bletsas and he travels all around Greece as well as the rest of the world showing different places of interest but also […]
Existential Crisis
I’ve not been “feeling the love” this year. When the new year came in, I was nonplussed about it all. Unlike other years where I used the opportunity to set some new goals and start afresh, this year, it was “meh”. No plans, no goals, no resolutions. Just go with the flow. The thing is, […]
Little Video Snippets
I’ve always loved recording videos and some years back, taking daily videos on what I was learning and experimenting on (using Snapchat) was the way I preferred to communicate. I have written how I used this platform (truth be told, you can actually use ANY platform but I preferred Snapchat as it captured the “time” […]