chicken soup
Posted in lessons, looking after yourself, women on Dec 3rd, 2010
Carla Delvex. Motherhood. Things in between.
Posted in lessons, looking after yourself, women on Dec 3rd, 2010
Posted in friends, lowlights, memories, private bits, reflections, women on May 26th, 2010
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken– and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I […]
Posted in heart, memories, November, sixteen, women, Writing on Nov 7th, 2009
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Mary Schmich My post today is double inspired by Mary and Dear Me Books. Dear sixteen year old Carla, Today all the wobbly Aunties are going to pinch your cheeks and cough up a lame old […]
Posted in Challenge, getting older, November, women on Nov 5th, 2009
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Mary Schmich I don’t wear a lot of make-up but when a friend of mine heard that I remove it every night with *shock* and *horror* just plain-ole-water she looked at me as repulsed with my habits as though I had just told her that last […]
Posted in apology, getting older, private bits, women on Sep 18th, 2009
In Melbourne Spring arrives in suggestive doses. A day of sunshine mingles with three or four of chill. Then there’s two days of sunshine in a row- teasing us to prematurely shed our coats and scarves (but not…I repeat not our knee high boots). Like true Melburnians we will then friggin’ curse that left […]