This year has been a time of hills, hoorays and highlights. The first hill was health challenges March to May, but later in the year, I was able to go to the gym for three months exercise physiology to strengthen my shoulders and knees.

My second hill was that I couldn’t sit my Lantite, Numeracy, until I could use my shoulder again. This then took a few more months then intended. Yet in the end it went from a hill to a hooray!

Hill to Hooray!

The third hill was juggling writing, Queensland Writers Centre Management committee tasks, and studying for my Lantite Numeracy, whilst often missing my writing buddies. There were three months where being at my desk was almost impossible. But the hooray was that at the end of the year I was able to see heaps of them at the SCWIBI Queensland end of year gathering, the Queensland Writers Centre Christmas party and Australian Fairy Tale Society Brisbane gathering.

I am very thankful for a few friends, that stayed in touch via phone, zoom and email, or came to visit when I wasn’t out much. You were a hooray to my life. Especially Ladan, Chikako, Renee, Helene and Anne.

Creative connections give such strength.

Looking back on the year – there were just too many things happening to write about them all. However, Genre Con at the start of the year was amazing. I look forward to attending it again in 2024.

Looking forward.

That is all for now! Wishing you a happy new year, and will be back with some more updates when I have time. I’ll be sure to let you know about some storytelling coming up in January! I am so excited to be sharing a story from my mum and grandmother.

See you next year – June