by admin | Jun 2, 2022 | funerals, The Eulogy, women who write
I had the pleasure of chatting with Mel James on ABC Illawarra Morning today. We talked about my debut book ‘The Eulogy’ which was released just yesterday, and the upcoming South Coast Writers Festival this weekend where I will be speaking with the...
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | death, funerals, hope, podcasts
People tend to be scared of talking about death. The Parting podcast is a series of discussions and stories, made and hosted by a group of brave, smart, funny and daring young people of Wollongong. I got to participate in one of the discussions and I learned a lot....
by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | funerals
A recently released statutory review calls for a shake-up of the funeral industry in NSW. The report calls for significant changes to the funeral industry (note that the report is dated Aug 2020 but was withheld until recently). Last Friday SMH published an article on...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 9, 2019 | depression, funerals, hope, Interfaith, motherhood, Random insights, Taoism
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. – John O’Donohue[1] Something is missing I am married to a good man. I have a beautiful eight-year old daughter. I...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 10, 2018 | funerals, Interfaith
I conducted my first funeral this week. Conducted? Officiated? Celebrated? None of those verbs quite fit what it felt like, which was more in the realm of Journeyed, or Travelled With. It was almost the end of the working day when the phone rang. I contemplated not...
