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By The MotherMind Doctor When your close friend tells you she has trouble communicating and it turns out to be a brain tumour, this literally turns life on its head. My friend is a practicing GP and somehow we think doctors are above human tragedy but life happens to them, too. This was all the more shocking because she is in her mid 50s and she is a long practicing health proponent, eating a plant-based diet, with exercise built into her routine, and has Buddhist belie

By EK Wills canoes in Sydney harbour Last weekend we attended our son’s scout Christmas party at the beach. Unusual you might say, but this was the sea scouts and it is water based. We recently moved close to the water but hadn’t had the opportunity to engage in water activities till that day: life has a way of distracting you with work, setting up house and preparing for Christmas. This was the first chance we had to force ourselves to stop and enjoy what we had moved there

By EK Wills Is Santa coming to your house? What if you don’t have a chimney? As we move into December, the Christmas list for each child is growing. Lego is a favourite for our ten year old and the teenaged girls are looking at earrings and clothing: all things they have to choose themselves or they won’t like them. Then we came up with a brainwave. Although it’s been four months since we moved, we’re still working out what we need and where it should go. The big-ticket items