May 7, 2014 Writing fruitfulness, goals, hope, inspiration, productivity, vision, waiting, work

Lifehack: My first post! Woohoo!

Hello friends, How are you all today? It’s voting day here in SA, the weather is fine and my first post is up on Lifehack. You can find it here: 10 Reasons Waiting is Good For You. If you’re a regular visitor to Doodles, you’ll know that this is a recurring theme in my life […]

March 18, 2014 Family Stuff, Publishing, Writing books, dreams, family, fiction, fruitfulness, goals, God, hope, inspiration, Jesus, kids, manuscript, novel, publishing, vision

Cover Reveal … Finding Mia

I clearly remember meeting my Hayley for the first time. Labor took 4,5 hours (short compared to most), a few pushes and some tugging. Then they handed me this squishy bundle of wrinkled skin – pale, blueish and not too charmed at facing the big world. I was smitten. To me, there’d never been anything […]

October 28, 2012 Prophetic words, Writing creativity, desire, dreams, focus, freedom, fruitfulness, goals, God, hope, inspiration, joy, life, longing, pressure, priorities, productivity, progress, vision, waiting

Pop the waterbed! Do it!

This post is really about passion. In fact, it’s not even my post, but it was so profound I got goosebumps. Serious goosebumps. So if you have every wondered what God wants you to do with you life, this post is for you. Head on over here and check it out. Let me know […]

August 24, 2012 Family Stuff, Odd bits & pieces, Writing books, deadlines, desire, dreams, family, fiction, freedom, fruitfulness, goals, inspiration, kids, life, longing, manuscript, productivity, progress, vision, work

Landsick…

Have you ever been on a boat long enough to get your sea-legs, only to feel thoroughly sick when you get back on land? This is probably the best way I can describe how I’m feeling at the moment – though it has nothing to do with boats, land or throwing up. Shhh! Let me explain. […]

June 12, 2012 Odd bits & pieces, Travel, Writing goals, God, hope, humour, inspiration, life, manuscript, productivity, publishing, vision, waiting

Walking on aeroplane wings and other preposterous ideas

So I’m in an aeroplane. We are thousands of feet above mother earth. I look out the window and read this little gem printed on the wing… ‘Do not walk outside this area’ Oh really? Why ever not? I’m so glad they put that out there, because you know – I was just about to head out […]

April 7, 2012 Family Stuff, Prophetic words, Writing books, chaos, Christianity, creating, dreams, external, family, focus, fruitfulness, goals, God, inspiration, kids, life, vision, waiting

Things aren’t what they seem…

If you had peeped into my bedroom this morning at 8, you would have thought – look at that lazy thing, tucked up under the duvet doing nothing. You would have, in fact, been dead wrong. Oh yes – to a casual observer it would seem that I was lying very snug and still, but what you […]

February 25, 2012 Odd bits & pieces, Prophetic words Christianity, despair, dreams, freedom, fruitfulness, gardening, God, hope, inspiration, productivity, progress, vision, waiting

Your winter is over

Today’s post is a little unusual, so bear with me. If you get to a point that you feel it’s not for you, you are most welcome to go make some tea and carry on with your life, or move on to the next blog. I won’t be offended in the slightest. Promise. In the December holidays, […]

February 10, 2012 Writing breakthrough, dreams, fruitfulness, great people, hope, inspiration, life, opportunity, power, seed, vision

Your Gifting will make Room for You

I caught the tail-end of a story on the news yesterday. There was a man, a brilliant maths teacher, forced to flee his country because of political unrest. He settled in Jo’burg and tried to find work in his area of expertise. Nobody would hire him as a teacher, but he managed to get a job as […]

December 28, 2011 Writing books, dreams, faith, hopes, novel, trusting, vision, waiting

Holes in my head… insert happy face here

I finally know that it is true. There are holes in my head, the size of swiss cheese. But it’s okay. You see this morning I started novel #2. Where is novel #1 you might ask? On the shelf. For now. I had always harboured a secret hope that I wouldn’t be amongst all […]

April 8, 2010 Writing despair, dreams, focus, fruitfulness, hope, productivity, publishing, vision

Fruitful waiting

All writers know what it means to wait. And wait. And wait some more… Waiting to hear from agents, publishers… All the while trying not to hope too much that this could be the one, this could be the Big Break. Only to have it all come crashing down in a two line form email. […]