Tag archives for Three Wise Women
I’m not your whipping boy, son
Dear Wise Woman, My thirty-three year old single son is highly resentful and jealous of my partner of three years. I thought the situation would improve with time, but it’s...
Handy with the tools
I’VE got a friend who gets all excited when she goes to the tools section at the hardware store. I was a bit overwhelmed when she once proudly showed me a new...
Secateurs or Jimmy Choos?
Australia’s foremost horticulture writer JULIE LAKE says you don’t have to be a mad gardener to have a beautiful garden. Just two hours a week is all it takes....
Clickety click, clickety clack
“Knit, purl, that’s all there is to it.” Or so my mother said when she taught me to knit at the age of eight. She made it look so...
Cold comfort
I’ve always been cautious. Look to the right, look to the left, and look to the right again. That’s how I ran my life, so when my marriage disintegrated...
Reinvention not retirement
Life delivers some strange twists and turns and sometimes when the way forward is blurred, you can reinvent yourself, as retired legal eagle KATHLEEN GIBBINGS discovered. I retired before I...
Molly and Stan and a grand idea
When two little strays wandered into her life, SUSAN RUSHBROOKE never imagined that as well as becoming good companions and housemates, they would lead her to a business project as well....
The knees have it
SOMETIMES I’m really not convinced about the value of trying to lead a healthy life. There I was, cruising along as a good time Charlie, eating, drinking and making merry, when...
Your call or mine?
After the death of his beloved wife, Uncle Arch continued to live in the two storey home they’d built as newlyweds 54 years earlier. He was a collector, which...
Street angel, home devil
To get the conversation started, one of our Wise Women gives a snapshot of her story. THE fact that we now hear more about domestic violence is probably more to do...