by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Intimate Connection
Some moments are so vivid that no dry erase marker could ever erase the smiles on your faces. Meeting R was one of those moments. He is a linguist, a researcher, who does similar work to me though in a different sector, a master of many languages and he brought all of...
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Intimate Connection
R arrived in my life like an unfinished sentence — full of promise, pauses, and meaning tucked between the words. He’s a researcher, just like me, though in a different world of data and evaluation. A degree in linguistics, a master’s in program evaluation so...
by admin | Oct 30, 2025 | Intimate Connection
Today I met R2 who I have been speaking to for a while online.He calls, texts, and is a great communicator. He’s gentle, thoughtful and much quieter than the people I’m usually drawn to. In truth, it felt a little like I was leading, and that’s not the dynamic I...
by admin | Oct 22, 2025 | Domestic Violence, Sexual Victimisation
I first met David Mehan MP when my son, Matty Blakemore, was honoured as Citizen of the Year for the Central Coast in the Australia Day Awards. The photo in this post is of both Matty and David. When we met again on 1st September, it was lovely that David remembered...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Advocacy
Facebook reminded me of a moment that changed everything in my advocacy for Autistic mothers, a post when I was travelling from Manchester to Cambridge for a meeting with researchers from the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University. I remember that train...
