My late husband, The Laundry King, is part of a grim set of statistics. He had glioblastoma, an aggressive infiltrative form of brain cancer that has no cure. The median survival for glioblastoma is 12-15 months. That is, even with treatment, just 50% of glioblastoma patients survive this long after diagnosis. Only 5% of patients […]
Daily Life
Approaching Equinox: Plundering Joy
The Laundry King. died peacefully at home last weekend less than 12 months after his brain tumour diagnosis. Glioblastoma is a stealth agent but we faced it together plundering joy.
Soft Landing in the Midst of a Pandemic
By way of a happy postscript to Free Falling in the Midst of a Pandemic, I am pleased to report a soft landing. My gutsy, determined brother flew back to Australia this week laying across three seats in a near empty plane, well clear of other passengers, for much of the journey. He was prepared […]
Free Falling in the Midst of a Pandemic
In which my brother J, ever the scientist, demonstrably proves that kiwis cannot fly. How the world was turned upside down in two weeks. One trans-Tasman family’s story of free falling in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating travel and isolation advisories. And 10 reasons to be thankful. It’s been an intense two […]
Shipping Textile Art: An Act of Faith
I was introduced to the risks of shipping textile art very early.? In 2000 I lovingly packed up my second quilting project, and first-ever baby quilt, and sent it by courier to England. My pregnant friend did not receive it; at least not straight away. Upon investigation, the courier company could find no trace of […]
26 January 2016
On this Australia Day 2016, and always, I acknowledge the indigenous people of this land: Desert Tracks: Not Terra Nullius: For thousands of years, the first peoples of Australia traversed this land belying the doctrine of terra nullius (land belonging to no one) that underpinned European settlement and nation building. For the Aboriginal people, an […]
