LIP SMACKERS

LIP SMACKERS

I’d say I was about 11 when my Mum gave me my first tube of mascara. It seems awfully young to start wearing makeup but in my mind, I was risking certain social rejection if I didn’t go to school with cherry coloured Lip-Smacker. I’m sure my Mum battled with...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SCHOOL CHAPLAIN

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SCHOOL CHAPLAIN

I have the best job in the world. No seriously, I do.I get a privileged front row seat to some of high school’s brightest and darkest moments, and have the opportunity on a weekly basis to shine some light into young people’s lives as they navigate their teenage years...
ONCE UPON A TIME

ONCE UPON A TIME

 When I was in my early twenties, my brother, Daniel, and I were doing some recording of songs that he had written.  We had spent a wet, miserable day at the recording studio in the Blue Mountains and started heading home mid-afternoon.  As we drove...
GIRLS WITH GUTS

GIRLS WITH GUTS

The events of the last few weeks have been horrific.  Bombings in Manchester, shootings in Egypt, knife rampages and vans mowing people down in the streets of London, murder in Melbourne, suicide bombers in Tehran.  Attacks are daily all over the...
DRAWING ASIDE

DRAWING ASIDE

Dieting is hard work!  I’m six months in and have totally plateaued!  My coach is patiently waiting for me to get a revelation that ‘food is just fuel’.  Uggh! I still see food as the centrepiece of celebration, the source of stress relief, the common...