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- After extensive travel for short periods both inside Australia and overseas, I took a break from my health policy job to travel for two months in Spain, Portugal and Morocco and live for four months in France, three of those in Paris. I'm currently living back in Australia with Steve and our twins Rhea and Lara.
![What I liked about the mornings was the racket that the birds made before dawn, screeching and singing away so close by. There was only a tent’s thickness of fabric […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IMG_26516-Port-Fairy-1-e1580039052513-115x115.jpg "Alive and dead")
![Once again, here are some memorable quotes from the girls as a snapshot of our year. Rhea: Eek! Lara: Yikes! Rhea: And plus. . . Lara: That’s sad. Rhea: I […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_2506-cafe-115x115.jpg "Of cells, cats, climate change and other notable quotes of 2019")
![It’s peak performance period: last Thursday was the girls’ school concert; the day after that Rhea recited her poem in French that she won second prize in her age group […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_2458-ballet-115x115.jpg "Performing")
![We had our Year Ten reunion the other week. I use the term ‘we’ loosely here – technically it was Maggie’s Year Ten reunion, not mine, as I attended a […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_3546-reunion-115x115.jpg "Year 10 reunion")
![Building up to the international climate change rallies on Friday September 20, I approached the event carefully with the girls, and I didn’t have any expectations that they would come. […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_2019-115x115.jpg "Climate strike")
![I recently read Nora Ephron’s last book of essays I remember Nothing, followed by her sister Delia’s book Sister Mother Husband Dog, also a very well-written book of essays including […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_1838-flowers-1-115x115.jpg "I like")
![This winter holidays we had two weeks in New Zealand. I hadn’t been since I was four, and I don’t remember anything about that trip except the plane and my […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NZ-IMG_1636-115x115.jpg "Kiwiland")
![It’s June, and that means it’s a busy month with a birthday party scheduled. What is involved is this: agreeing on a suitable indoor party venue from a suggested shortlist; […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_1577-train-cake-115x115.jpg "Consumed")
![Having recently read the very impressive life story of Anne Summers in her Memoir Unfettered and Alive, I had allowed myself to fantasize about the possibility of the labor party […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rock-maze-115x115.jpg "Post election blues")
![I read a book by Donald Horne once (he was the one who ironically coined the term ‘the Lucky Country’ but people didn’t pick up the irony), in which he […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_1366-bike-115x115.jpg "Breath")