Hope and inspiration
The New Year parties are long finished and many people made resolutions which are going strong, while others have fallen by the wayside. Neither is right or wrong, good or bad. Life is a day to day experience and things change. I’m not good at resolutions for the New Year as I look at life […]
Create new traditions for Christmas and New Year
No matter where you live Christmas and New Year have wonderful traditions of either family recipes or cultural country recipes. From heavy roast lunches or dinners to puddings with cream or custard poured over the top. I grew up in a very hot climate where we moved from the traditional heavy roast lunches and dinners […]
How do we Express our Love, Friendship and Kindness?
The connection between family members can be so close they only do things together, excluding all others. Some families connect from time to time as they may be living abroad, travelling or going to boarding school. Friendships are made and last a lifetime, others come and go. A chance meeting at work, dinner party, in […]
Christmas the festive season, New Year and Wellness
This is such a memorable time of the year. I grew up in Australia so Christmas was always hot. It consisted of swimmers, shorts, t shirts, sunburn and nights with the sound of insects chirping. In my very early days, I do remember a heavy traditional roast lunch with Christmas pudding. Thank goodness, we moved […]
Gluten Free or Not, That is the Question?
Expat Life in Thailand reports thousands of people around the world who have taken gluten foods out of their diet have made a vast improvement in their health. People who have coeliac disease, gluten intolerance or sensitivity to gluten related foods have benefited from a change in diet. The next group of people are those […]
Your family member or friend has just been told they have cancer, what do you do next
So many friends and family members are told this news every day around the world. It is a shock, a disaster, traumatic, helpless, void of emotion to some and others cry uncontrollably. Whatever your initial emotion is, it is time to breath, observe and set about your plan for your family member or friend. You […]
Your traditions, your culture, your food
Have you ever asked yourself the question, “How am I made?’ Not in the sense of conception but how are you made from your parents, grandparents and your ancestral lineage? If we look at who made us, where they came from, who made them and where they come from, a pattern starts to appear of our […]