About this blog

Hello. I’m so pleased to e-meet you on this journey.

Yes, I know, my subject line, “Real-life journeys of discovery and reinvention”, breaks rules because my energy should be honed on a tight area. That’s what all the gurus tell you.

I did try: I set out to write about journeys to sustainable living because we’ve made such a hash of looking after our Earth.

But the old journalist in me would not be still. Before I knew it, I was probing things: motorcycle sidecar ambulances that were saving lives all over Africa but became the stuff of agendas and mindlessness at home; learning to live with HIV and COVID-19, its upstart friend; the harm that gaslighting does in real lives.

And I like it: writing about what I want to while trying to make sense of the world, hopefully adding some value for readers who might feel some resonance with the posts.

Of course, sustainability will always be under my spotlight – choices around what we wear, particularly, because that’s where I am active. But others are doing a much better job than I can ever do of dissecting everything there is to know about sustainable living.

I’m no longer a “real” journalist (whatever that is); I’m happy that I pulled myself out of that self-identity. Today, I live and work on the edge of a coastal dune forest, often under the milkwood tree. From here, I ride the work-life see-saw – imagine how boring it would be if it was always level.

But I am a writer and an observer of being human. And because we are human and constantly adjusting to find our place in the world, we reinvent ourselves.

This is not my first reinvention. When I started my blog back then (on Blogspot), the focus was on post-corporate survival. I had stepped off the treadmill and had something to say. Then I took a seven-year break.

There is always more to explore, more to say, new ways to try to understand real life.

So, these journeys through life include real travel, too. Wherever I go, I come back and settle beneath the twisting branches of the milkwood.

(All pics here are taken by me unless otherwise indicated. I retain all rights to them.)

Scattered about

Somehow, I have scattered myself all over the Internet. You can also find me here: