Writer | Trainer | Consultant
Yesterday I gave a presentation to a group of Maternal and Child Health nurses from the City of Whitehorse about working with rainbow families. It was a fantastic session with a really engaged audience who asked lots of questions. I came away on a complete high and I’m still buzzing. What I love about these […]
This week I went to my local early-polling station to vote and saw my name on the Senate ballot paper. I have to admit, it was a buzz. Just under three years ago my friend, Jason, told me he wanted to start a political party. I laughed. A lot. Crazy, I said. Impossible. Clearly, I […]
Two years ago, Scout and Cully approached me with a request. My response was a definite No! Not a We’ll see kind of No, or a Maybe later kind of No, but a clear, emphatic, never-in-a-million-years-and-over-my-dead-body kind of No. From that time ‘til now the girls have engaged in a sustained campaign to achieve their […]
In my final year of high school I was presented with an award. The ‘award ceremony’ – and I use the term loosely – took place at the monthly Rotary Club lunch held at the Borehamwood Civic Hall. I was told to ‘dress smartly’ which was code for ‘wear a dress’, an item I did […]
I told this story to a small group of people recently. I couldn’t quite reach the end of it without getting choked up, and when I did finish, the room was silent. ‘You should write that down’, one of my listeners said. So here it is, written down. I came out in 1986 in England, […]