by Margie | Jul 17, 2013 | Build Resilience
I’ve just returned from two weeks travelling through Vietnam and Cambodia (with Intrepid Travel) with my family (Click here for my favorite travel snaps). In between lots of wonderful family fun and adventurous ‘firsts’ (“Crispy fried crickets anyone?”), I had...
by Margie | Dec 18, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
The tragedy of so many innocent lives lost so brutally last Friday in Newtown Connecticut has dimmed the festive spirit for many people this week. Trying to comprehend the mind of someone who could commit such a barbaric act is impossible. Trying to imagine the raw...
by Margie | Mar 1, 2011 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
As I woke this morning the first thought that drifted into my head was that today is my brother Peter’s birthday. And then it hit me that it was a year ago today that I last spoke to him. Pete was in a psychiatric hospital. On his 31st birthday. In Sydney. I...
by Margie | Apr 19, 2010 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Forgive me if this post is a little raw. Life has been raw for me these last couple weeks. My youngest brother Peter (above, with my kids) died just over two weeks ago and I’ve been living life at its rawest ever since. Pete, who was 31, suffered from...
by Margie | Feb 8, 2010 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Apparently Thomas Jefferson and George Washington experienced a blizzard of similar magnitude to the one we did in Washinton D.C. area last weekend but certainly, it was the biggest recorded dump of snow since official records began. Having come from a place where...
