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Women fart. Deal with it.
Editor’s note: If you can’t handle the F word (fart), best you click here instead. Today I stumbled across a post I’d half written while falling asleep a few weeks back. It was triggered by the ridiculous comment former spin king Shane Warne (or as my half asleep typing called him, Spunk Kong Dhane Watne) made […]
MoreGwinganna Lifestyle Retreat
In the middle of winter, I headed back to Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat on the Gold Coast for another seven-day detox. It had been a rough couple of months and mum and I headed off for a week of healthy food, soul nurturing and a dose of the great outdoors. My first visit was last Easter […]
MoreThe detox challenge: no sugar, gluten, dairy, TV and social media.
With a frozen Coke in my hand, an empty cupcake wrapper scrunched up near my foot and singing The Archie’s ‘Sugar, Sugar’ a little too enthusiastically, my week-long detox was probably off to a bad start. Mum had packed a bag of grapes but like a crazed junkie, I was desperate for one last hit […]
MoreGwinganna Lifestyle Retreat: The food edition
Warning: Do not read this post while hungry. Urban dictionary describes food porn as “taking mouth-watering pictures of delicious food and proliferating them throughout various social media websites as status updates, thus tempting all those not even currently hungry into getting food-horny and blowing all of their heroic dieting efforts to hell”. And this post is […]
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It’s not easy being green
There are a number of sentences that can quickly conjure up a sense of fear and panic in people. For me, the first is when my mum uses my full name. It almost always means I’m in trouble. Although it’s been a few years since it was last used … after I secretly increased my credit card […]
MoreTortured by a witch doctor
“There are no words to describe the horror that haunts a mother who has lost her only child in such a barbaric and gruesome act.” —Pastor Peter Sewakiryanga, Kyampisi Childcare Ministries— Within minutes of meeting five-year-old George Mukisa, of Uganda, he had won himself a place in my heart forever. Although shy to start, it […]
MoreI was cyber-bullied at age 29
When I was 12 years old, I had to change schools after being bullied. The emotional and verbal attacks spanned the better part of a year; kids who used to be my friends suddenly refused to sit with me, made fun of my appearance and said unkind things about my family. I think it hurt […]
MoreDonate life: Saved by a stranger
This week is DonateLife Week and, to mark the occasion, I signed up to be an organ donor. DonateLife Week (Sunday 24 February—Sunday 3 March) is Australia’s national awareness week to promote organ and tissue donation. There are around 1600 Australians waiting for an organ transplant. Sadly, many of them will die while they wait […]
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