Dear Daughters and Sons – Listen to RuPaul.

I realised in the middle of the night – which is when we realise all great or stupid things – that the one thing I regret in life more than any thing else is this – I didn’t believe in myself. I have lost opportunities. I have seen small rocks that needed kicking out of […]

Dear Daughters and Sons – The Things that Haunt Us

Many times in my life I have curled up into a ball and wanted to disappear feeling that I just can’t do it – life that is. About Half the Time: If I could talk to my younger self in these moments I would like to shake myself and say – Listen Younger-self – half […]

Dear Daughters and Sons – how to not become a hermit in a knitted beanie.

Dear Daughters and Sons, All my life I have been ’emotionally fluid’ you know – like waves, large ones that roll and crash about without direction. Its gotten worse as I’ve gotten older which is a bummer because I expected to grow wise and become able to control my emotions. Not just grow older. I […]

Dear Everyone – Happiness only exists because of Sadness

In my last letter I said that I was starting Day 1 on my road to happiness. Somehow I got stuck at Day 1 and didn’t get to Day 2 for a long time. And when I got to Day 2 I didn’t realise I’d got there until I was looking back and was able […]

Dear Daughters – finding a perfect man – Dear Sons – why you can never be one

Yesterday my husband Pete forgot about my strict baptist upbringing and thought he would try a little role playing with me. He walked into the kitchen, swaggering in a singlet and shorts and said, ‘G’day Lovvie, I’m Big Bob from Big Bobs massage palour for professional women.’ He didn’t get the response he wanted, I […]

Dear Sisters, on day 1. make your own happiness

Dear Sisters, I have not written for a long time. This is because I am a mess. When I was in my 30’s people in their 50s told me that your 50s is the best time of your life. For me this has not been true. When I look back, the best time of my […]

Idiots who tried to cure my Cancer

Dear Sons and Daughters, 10 years ago I had cancer. You can believe me because I have the scars to prove it. Every idiot knew how to cure me. I was told red cordial, meditation, drinking grass juice, drinking my own urine, eating only vegetables, having my chakra aligned, never touching coffee, tea, alcohol, cows […]

Dear Daughters – How to find a Guy your Mum will Like

Dear Daughters, Each morning before school I take my 17 year old to breakfast, to a funky little café opposite her school, called the Flying Monkey. Over toasties and tea, if I’m lucky, she forgets I’m her mother and I get to find out what is really going on in her life as opposed to […]