Since I won’t be blogging again before Christmas, I want to wish you all a happy and safe Christmas. I’ll be back before the New Year. I’m genuinely excited about what 2016 will bring us. So many possibilities. So much good will and kindness, despite what the news media reports. Have a joyous holiday season!  

2014 has been a mongrel of a year. (Mongrel being a good, oldfashioned, polite-ish Aussie swearword for a **** anything). So I’d really like to end it now and start again. Here are my it’s-only-September-New-Year-resolutions: drastically cut down sugar. I feel better without it, but reach for it whenever I get stressed. Bah. Willpower, woman!…