Writing My Memoir Journey:

Ian and I have come down to Margaret River for a well earned break just for a few days; as usual we spent some time in the Margaret River bookshop...and I spotted this book “write your memoir – the soul work for telling your story” by Dr Allan G Hunter....what attracted me to this particular book is that it refers to your writing as your soul work, that resonated with me, because I think that when you write your life story you have to also be thinking at a deeper level and this may also bring about change...so I had to have it...my wonderful husband Ian bought it for me.


Ian is such a patient man, he supports all that I do, he must think there she goes again...another project started. In his wisdom, he said ok, this is a great place for you to start writing, and he is correct it is tranquil, nature surrounds, the birds, butterflies and flies for company and the occasional truck or car that flies along the road, just to remind you that life goes on. I start to type away on my computer under the grand Oak tree that has its own stories to tell, I can at least say the memoir has begun.

I have wanted to write my story for many years it is something I want to do for myself and I did begin several years ago compiling a timeline of events to keep me on track, I will have to put it together with this work and keep writing. This off course is a long term goal, so I will chip away at it slowly. We have decided that it would be good to book a regular yearly holiday to Basildene Manor to keep the project going.... and Ian well he is sitting beside me listening to his ipod story..... enjoying the same wonderful peace and quiet.....


Busselton Jetty:

Writing a joint article using the internet - Perth WA - Dunedin NZ

I have been wanting to publish an article about the growing trend and use of the Internet. It always astonishes me how much information is out there and how many women seek out this information or use the Internet to spread information about pregnancy, childbirth, freebirth, unattended birth, medicalised care, good & poor care received from midwives. I am also perplexed or surprised at how many midwives still do not utilise this resource or are afraid of it - 'the Internet' or cyber world as I like to call it.

It seemed a logical step to take when I asked Sarah Stewart to co-publish with me, Sarah has been a great support to me since I began blogging in January of 2008. Today I contacted Sarah via Skype to discuss the next step, which has been to create a document using google docs,(you do need to have a current google account) by which we can both write and edit our article, it is so great, I can't believe it is so easy, off course once you know how! It was so amazing to talk to Sarah after blogging for 10 months we have finally spoken. I find it unbelievable that technology takes us this far, here I am in Perth WA and Sarah is in Dunedin NZ, five hours of time between us and we spoke and saw each other as if we were face to face - it is really amazing.

My first task is to brainstorm all the things I'm interested in, as I have already mentioned some of them, Sarah did point out to me that we could write several papers and culling will be very important.
This is a familiar problem for me - too many ideas, that's where Sarah will keep me focused.

Watch this space to see how we go ..............