Women say Share The Work and Wealth:
Let us not indulge too much in platitudes this International Women’s Day because, although we can be smug about real progress over the past quarter century in achieving equality in law, the one big...
View ArticleFamily and a Frolic in City’s Mad March
Time slips by quietly and suddenly it is 10 months since husband Olivier died. Some friends say “time enough’’ for grief and beseech me to “move on”. And I wonder what do those words mean? Am I to...
View ArticleAuthors share stories at Writers’ Week
Writers Week in Adelaide was once more a smorgasbord of talented writers and I indulged in the unique atmosphere and being inspired by some of the world’s best authors. It now unfolds annually in the...
View ArticleLush landscape in memorable journey
Mad March heralds Autumn and farewells the most extraordinary summer in my memory. It seemed at one stage the whole of New South Wales was burning in an ominous scattering of more than 100 bushfires....
View ArticleRight Royal Beautiful Boatload
We have one life to live and it’s the experience of each moment that matters. Curiosity; serendipity; Whatever words you wish to use; its that desire to find excitement and joy in every day which...
View ArticleThe Power of Words
American thinker Joseph Campbell once said “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” They are comforting words for a new widow, and a...
View ArticleOur Easter feast includes a “Stuff-Off”
Food culture has invaded our Easter celebrations with all the birds roasted for our Sunday feast being filled with stuffings in our family’s stuff-off. The table is set with the best china, Josephine...
View ArticleLove Is No Longer All You Need
Love is no longer all you need for happiness, the world’s oldest longitudinal study has found. As we age, if we acquire emotional intelligence – the ability to cope with whatever life dishes out – has...
View ArticleHollande in hole of scandal, debt and despair
Ex-pat journalist Emma-Kate Symons sums up French president Francois Hollande’s bumbling performance in his first 12 months in office in two words – Quel catastrophe! From her first-hand perch in the...
View ArticleLucky Locky To Russia With Know-How
Some blokes have all the luck. Take popular yachtie vice-commodore of the Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club Locky McLaren spend last Sunday motoring his yacht loaded with a bunch of female friends,...
View ArticleIRON LADY’S LEGACY LIVES ON :
In this laissez faire society of ours, it is hard to understand the hatred which spews forth in Britain upon the death of Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The poor woman is...
View ArticleI’m a cool, cute, cream-colored Citroen
It’s a good thing these builders are sociable blokes. Not only are they doing an excellent job restoring our ‘white room’ and building a French-style fireplace for us, but they have invited me to join...
View ArticleOooh La La To Lovely Adelaide
For me, this has been an exhilarating week of girlie stuff: a strange French woman staying in my house, a glorious garden party with heaps of girlfriends, a girls’ night in delightful accommodation,...
View ArticlePentagon visit a coup for Pamela
High level military connections continue to serve up surprising treats for Dr Pamela Schulz, chair of the Defence Reserves Support Council of SA. What could be more exciting than an informal visit to...
View ArticleMasters Cricketer Man of Match in US
South Australian masters cricketer Roy Schulz proved a mean bowler in Australia’s national over 60s cricket team in its tour of the United States in May. On the last day of the International Cricket...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Carry ON in KI
It is a delightful, calm Friday evening on the ferry to Kangaroo Island and we are laden up for a holiday from heaven with adult children and adorable grand-daughter Scarlett, a nine month old bundle...
View ArticleIn the Company of Women
It was a lightening decision to travel to Perth in May for the Biennial International Congress of Lyceum Clubs as a means of coping with the first anniversary of the death of my husband, Olivier.....
View ArticleThe Curse of that Reproductive Cancer Gene
Our family had seen many female relatives die of reproductive cancers. My mother had a string of aunties who died of cancer and her own sister, my auntie died in our home of ovarian cancer, aged 52;...
View ArticleANGELINA CUTS RISK OF CANCER
Before the hail of praise on Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie fades following her shocking revelation of a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction, it’s important to note a few frank facts....
View ArticleEvery Dollar helps beat cancer
My month of May has been devoted to fund-raising for cancer research as a memorial to my husband Olivier who died 12 months ago this month. Relay for Life, for instance, was a big event for our family...
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