Selectively Juggling

What details of your life could you pay more attention to? I mean the very very fine print! Why, you may ask. Well, I swear I need to attend to things that I never envisaged ever needing to do. Between juggling hats and roles, I’m left with what can sometimes be described as a threadbare…

What’s the trait you value most about yourself? My most valuable traits happens to be my ability to face life’s challenges with resilience and an inner warrior mantra. As is my uncanny ability to see life and life’s challenges through a highly nuanced multifaceted lens, while selectively juggling and compartmentalising at the same time. Oh,…

List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter. I’d give away my profession and become a full time writer and photographer. I’d combine it with a position as a professional traveller. I’d love love love to try my luck as a creative.

What brands do you associate with? I do not have a brands fetish, with favourite brands, per se. On the contrary, I’m much more likely to avoid a brand if they are associated with social and political injustices, fascists, racists, misogyny, homophobia, ageism, ableism, environmental harm etc. I actively boycott brands and businesses, and sadly…

What could you do more of? I could seriously spend more time writing, as well as getting out and about with my camera. I could, no actually should spend time exploring my city more, especially given Sydney’s wonderful newish metro system, that has made it easy to traverse North, East, South and West. I’d like…

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? My Dad wisely told me “in life you do not need to attend every argument you’re invited to”. This advice has served me well. Another pearl of wisdom has been “you cannot control or change the way others see or perceive you”. Additionally, the following advice…

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. When my eldest child was around twelve-months old I stumbled into the kitchen, bleary-tired eyes (trying to balance being a first time mum, with returning back to a challenging social worker role). Anyway, I grabbed my son’s milk bottle and added what I thought was a…

What’s your all-time favourite album? I literally have way too many favourite albums, to simply be able to decide on just one. I mean I literally have a catalogue of 1000’s of favourite songs in my mind. I have very eclectic tastes, with just a few musical aversions, such as dislike of heavy hard metal…

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. I wish that I had learned to say ‘no’ instead of learning to try and please everyone. I wish I had learned – I mean truly learned that I was perfectly imperfect, just the way I was. I wish I had learned earlier that…