The reasons we women choose to wear makeup are many and varied. As a young woman, makeup helped to disguise my problem skin; in fact I rarely left the house – and certainly never went to work – without my full ‘warpaint’. In vain the husbear assured me I was beautiful just the way I […]
A Sentence A Day: May 2021
May I present you with the May edition of A Sentence A Day in the life of Janetti Spaghetti! We continue to be relatively untouched by the Covid outbreak here in Brisbane, as you will see by how much we have been out and about this month … 1 May – It’s a long weekend […]
Life Before Vaccinations
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in the magical land of Bris-Vegas. Now this was in the days before modern medicine, so the people were in fear and trembling, as at any time pestilence could be upon them. Fortunately, our little girl was of a robust constitution and was mostly […]
Stop Saying “I’m Getting Old!”
Sitting on the lawn outside, I struggled to get back to my feet. “Ugh, I’m getting old!” I groaned. It started out as a bit of a joke, but somehow, it became my go-to phrase whenever I felt any stiffness or soreness, or if my mind wasn’t as quick as it once was (mental arithmetic […]