by Margie | May 30, 2016 | Live Passionately, Women Rising
Let’s face it, life will never be exactly as you’d like it to be. Or not for long anyway. There will always be things you’d like to be different. To have less on your plate or more certainty about your future. To have fewer bills to pay or more support from your...
by Margie | Jan 26, 2016 | Brave Parenting
Let me begin by saying that I am not an educational specialist, child psychologist, school counsellor, ex-teacher, parenting expert or athletic coach. However as a mother of three teens and one ‘teen-wannabee’, I often see parents get a little (or lot!)...
by Margie | Sep 2, 2015 | Brave Parenting, Build Resilience, Live Passionately
“Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent...
by Margie | Apr 30, 2015 | Live Passionately
Twenty five years ago this week I embarked on a year long trip around the world with little more than my backpack, some travelers checks and a sense of adventure. First stop USA, then Europe and, then on through India and South East Asia. I recall a tumult of intense...
by Margie | Sep 29, 2014 | Brave Parenting, Live Passionately
When I asked my son Ben what he wanted for his 13th birthday in August he pondered the question for about ten seconds before replying, “To go sky diving.” While I was a bit taken aback I knew that given both Andrew and I had both been parachuting I’d be a hypocrite...
