Appointments For Adventure 8: Make a Vow Yesterday I went to the wedding of the daughter of family friends. Each wedding has its own flavour, as does each couple, but each time I attend a wedding when it gets to the vows part I feel a sense of gravity. This is the real part of the […]
Appointments For Adventure 7: Paris Is Always A Good Idea This week we’ve been planning around some commitments in Europe in June. We figure, if you’ve got to go that far, why not make the most of it and extend the journey? My husband has his birthday in June and I asked him where […]
Appointments For Adventure 6: Teaching Teaching is an adventure. Some of my best days have been in the classroom in some way, shape or form. The classrooms I work in today look a little like the ones in the photos below, or a one-one-one in a cafe or my library. I’ve also been privileged […]
Appointments For Adventure 5: Shake It Off I’ve been going to the gym since I was a teenager,and have also played netball, squash, softball, competed in triathlons and fun runs and regularly go for bush walks. Over the years, fitness hasn’t been an issue for me, it’s just that my body doesn’t reflect the amount of […]
My husband, Steve is working on a new book and we spent until almost midnight last night chatting about his book. We brainstormed themes, read lots of quotes, talked about his philosophy of ‘integrity of the shot’ and a million others things that spring boarded out of the conversation. Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called […]
Appointments For Adventure 3: Travel Plans This afternoon, I had an appointment. With my husband. We had a ‘meeting’ to decide what to do when we go to Europe in June. You may ask why we haven’t worked that out already, but if you know us, you’ll know that we work on big picture and let the […]
Appointments For Adventure 2: My Nemesis Writers are notorious for writing about the flow of the muse and writers block as the antithesis of each other. I’m having a long-standing battle with my nemesis at the moment—a novel I began in Tuscany in 2010, developed at Oxford in 2013 and worked on at The Art […]
Appointments For Adventure: Be Still After eight days of Bookstore Adventures, I want to continue the 365 Days of Adventure journey with Twenty Appointments For Adventure. Earlier in the year, I wrote about Adventure by Appointment and the idea that if you make an appointment, you will feel accountable. So, over the next twenty days, I’m going […]
City Lights San Francisco Whenever I go to a city, I check out the independent bookstores and make a point of visiting the ones I find intriguing. City Lights Bookstore is such a destination store. I located it on Google Maps and figured out how to get there by cable car and walking. It took me […]
