4 kids, 20 suitcases and a beagle

• Expat Women 2 years ago I’ve been back in Doha for almost two weeks and like any return there’s the inevitable comparison of what’s different, what has changed. For the two years I’ve been away Doha hasn’t slowed down – with a World Cup on the horizon there’s the constant thrum of building development and...
• Just About Done 3 years ago I don’t know about you, but I’m just about done and unfortunately I’m not talking about Christmas shopping. Covid has finally got me. Not in the viral bedridden sense, that’s yet to come, but the fatigue of the what comes next hit me hard(er) today. G (husband) was meant to be flying into...
• Vale The Beagle 3 years ago My sister told me the story as I was driving, we were both on speaker phone. She was talking about an older couple, people she’s close to, the couple had fallen in love later in life. Both had adult children on opposite sides of the world. He was from the UK and she Australian. As […]
• Breaking the Marriage Rules 3 years ago Picture this, your marriage has its own personal umpire. The umpire is there to make sure none of the cardinal rules are broken. And when I say rules it’s more than in sickness and in health. It’s the down and dirty, the murky stuff that we know is wrong but we just can’t somehow help […]
• A broken heart 4 years ago It was in January of this year that I first had an inkling there was something wrong with my heart. There were tests, angiograms and monitors, more tests, and then finally a triuphant call from my cardioligist. As I puffed my way up the steep incline of the treadmill he watched my heart screaming...

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