Christmas break this year was spent with my family at my parents’ beach house. We all went – my siblings, their partners & kids and my parents. Of course the dogs came too, including my puppy, Gilbert.
Although Gilbert’s an indoor dog, I knew that he’d be outside whilst we had kids around, so I brought [...]

To join a gym’; ‘to spend more time with family’, ‘to earn more’; ‘to learn a new language’ – all resolutions.
Every year I feel I should devise a list of my resolutions for the year to come. However, to me each time I recall these they feel like an obligation rather than a thing that [...]

Christmas is a time for ‘celebration’, ‘family gatherings’ and ‘eating’ right? So why is it that every year I feel a little sad? Why when I have the busiest social calendar do I feel a bit lost and alone?
For me, Christmas each year has been such a special family event. It is a great time [...]

My mobile rang. I answered it, swapping the handset to my right ear and sitting down (to concentrate on the conversation and not my balance!)
“Hi Emma speaking” I said
“Is Emma Gee there?” He ashed
“Speaking” I said
“It’s x x x . I’m going to install air conditioner!” He said
“Oh, hi” I said pleased to hear the [...]

When I purchased my new puppy five weeks ago, I never thought that I’d be able to care for him myself. Convincing my friends and family that a dog would be a great companion took months. I told them looking after him would be a synch but deep down had one million bats colliding in [...]

Emma Effect
This article was recently written and displayed on page # 3 in the local Boroondara Paper.

Setbacks, hiccups, and detours – all a way of saying that an unexpected event has disrupted our pretty smooth life path. When I stroked at 24 I never expected what was ahead of me. If I’d been told then that I’d have to re learn how to talk, swallow and move or be back on [...]

I saw Julia & Julia (the movie) last night and it inspired me to start ‘going public’ with my writing again. Why have I been hesitant to do this? Well I guess writing a blog seems ’self focussed’ and the prospect of exposing my life to those interested to read it, is quite scarey. However, I [...]

Listen poem.
When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you [...]

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