Coming Home

We have been back home for almost 3 months now and this is the first post I've written since we arrived. There has been a feeling of stuck-ness in my creativity that I associate with the shock of coming home after a year of travel. There is a sense of profound loss and the sadness …

The Love of a Mother

They say that motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.  Sometimes I hardly believe that I am a mother - the mother of two handsome, tall, young men with big hearts and warm hugs.  Sometimes I just watch these two beautiful, lovable (sometimes frustrating!) humans and can hardly believe they were once snuggled …

Finding Me

Over the past couple of years I've been trying to gradually change my own perception of 'me'. I have been wanting for a long time to come to terms with myself and appreciate the 'me' of me.  All my life I have felt (or been made to feel by others) that I wasn't skinny enough …

Getting Real

SONDER - n. the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know …

I am woman …

"We are mothers. We are caregivers. We are artists. We are activists. We are entrepreneurs, doctors, leaders of industry and technology. Our potential is unlimited. We rise." - Alicia Keys With International Women's Day this week,  my mind naturally turned to the strong, beautiful women in my life who inspire me, who empower other women …

Focusing on the Now

As I sit here overlooking the sea dotted with little islands, the mountains rising in the distance to my left and watching aeroplanes landing regularly on the edge-of-the-water runway, I recognise how very fortunate we are to be here. Right here, right now. I am grateful for this very moment, as the sweat of humidity …

Available to Possibilities

When we started on this 'joy of less' journey we had vague plans (Ben doesn't plan and I was trying to be chill! 😄) of starting a business venture on the water. However due to health issues that was temporarily put on the back burner. We then realised that this 'time out' from the 9-5 …

No place to store Vanity

I have been glad of some of the excuses that living on a boat gives me. One is that people have less expectations of me titivating myself and presenting myself fully groomed. Most days I have come to not care how I look.  My daily routine includes my teeth getting brushed, moisturiser and sunscreen being …

Simple Pleasures

My ever fair-minded husband pointed out to me that since I've blogged about what I miss about home comforts, it wouldn't be fair of me to not blog about the things that bring me pleasure living on a boat. I agree! 😊 So here they are: The magnificent sunsets that close out the day - …

Home Comforts

We recently visited our home (the double brick one on terra firma!) for a long weekend, and there within those walls I enjoyed again the comforts of living in a house. Things I usually take for granted. Things I hardly notice until I don't have them anymore.  I put together a list of 10 basic …