It all started one dark autumn morning when I drove through beautiful Bundjalung Country in the northern rivers of NSW. A watery sun washed through dark clouds. I was in good spirits having prepared well for the keynote presentation I was to give that day in Canberra, had my lovely new apple red velvet jacket…
My dad and I are polar opposites. He’s a conservative man who lives by the rules. I’m a leftie bleeding heart who likes to colour outside the lines. In my parlance Dad is quite an extreme Lime and I’m a loose mix of Mango/Banana by nature. Building relationships with close family is not like those…
I’ve always been a bit of a tight jeans girl. Back in the seventies we would have to lie down on the bed, edging them up, bit by bit until finally use a coat hanger hook to help pull up the zipper. But mainly I like tight jeans because I have decent legs, a passable…
When you met it was a cute, sexy laugh. Now it’s a grating cackle. What you loved most was that they always wanted to please you, and look after you. Now it’s like, just give me some space you sucker fish. If things with the love of your life are not quite the same as…
Prior to the pandemic, a business buddy and I had been talking about forming a small group to get together and shoot the breeze on a regular basis. The intention was to share wins and losses, fears and problems, and provide strategic advice on business growth. We’d meet once a month on Zoom, then quarterly…
Are you one of those people who think you’re hilarious? That tell a story and rock a room? Are you sure about that? When we think of funny people it’s easy to go to the obvious personality type, the Mango. Mangoes are funny, no doubt. Humour comes naturally to them and they are unafraid to…
I’ve been on a bit of a learning curve lately. And it’s a tough one. When you work alone, as I do, you set the projects and you set the deadlines. And during COVID it’s possible I may have taken on one too many projects. Which means lots of deadlines. That may be a myriad…
Ever tried so hard to get it right and just failed miserably? Welcome to being human. There’s been a lot of conversation around Australia Day and naturally the topic of racism has cropped up in some of my interactions, prompting me to share an incident of my own ineptitude some years back. It was in…
Despite the cheeriness of my happy Fruit people I haven’t actually been feeling so Christmassy this year. I’m tired. I want to be all Scrooge and bah humbug but the Mango within won’t let me. I had cancelled my live tree weeks ago but the other night inner Mango won and forced me down to…
