Celebrations big and small mark the magic we make in the world Woman&Home SA, December 2021 This is the fantasy: A lush garden party on a warm summer’s evening, with nothing but the full moon, fire pits and candles for light. Maybe some fairy lights and colourful lanterns strung between trees. Over there, in theContinue reading "Once upon a dream"

I was just about to post my December column when I realised that, for my subscribed peeps (Hello all eight of you!), it would be kind of rude to just plough ahead without so much as a Happy New Year. Right? So here is a 'Happy New Year!' and a little something I want toContinue reading "Hello 2022"

Sometimes looking outwards really is the only way to find some space within, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, November 2021 It is early morning, and I am sitting on the polished wooden floors of a hip, inner-city yoga studio. I am sitting cross-legged and straight-backed, eyes closed, hands resting on knees, breathing deeply. I amContinue reading "The great out there"

Thriving isn’t a goal but a state of being, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, October 2021 The thing I love about plants is what interesting people they are. Resilient, defiant, always pushing up and out no matter where they find themselves and no matter what shape they take. Call them ‘flower’ or ‘weed’ and they’llContinue reading "We are Groot"

'Listen, and do not forget, and I will show you a mystery. It is not the sacrifice, whether it comes in youth or age, or the god remits it; is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting, Theseus. The readiness is all. It washes heart and mind from things of noContinue reading "The readiness is all"