Sarah Wilson

naming your blog/business/book: some inspiration

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I’m thinking of a new name. For this blog (feel free to send suggestions?) and some other bits and pieces I’m working on. I like thinking of new names and marveling at other people’s clever names. One’s I’ve liked: I Peck Your Pun (fashion label), I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a book by …and … Read more

healing auto-immune disease #7 (some anti-inflammatory eating tips)

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rejigging your health will ONLY come down like a stack of cards if you wear floral tights

Perhaps you thought I’d dropped this series? Nope. Just taken a spell.

But I just came across this rundown of tips for eating for auto-immune disease from Melbourne naturopath Gill Stannard. Definitely worth a bit of a share.

I’ve cut out the salient bits:

* The “Mediterranean Diet” is a good model to eat by. This lowers inflammation and is based around eating plenty of seasonal fruits and vegetables, legumes and other unrefined carbohydrates, fish fresh from the sea, local olive oil unheated on salads and a little sheep’s milk yoghurt.
* Oils – fish, fresh nuts, seeds and raw plant oils, especially omega 3’s. Avoid polyunsaturated, animal fats, margarines and heated oils (anti-inflammatory)
* Eat lots of green and orange vegetables (organically grown when possible).
* Shitake mushrooms provide good immune support.

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why I won’t buy an ipad

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I don’t need one. I know, I know it’s new and fun and it will change the world in many good ways. I love the idea of the ipad. And I love to follow the dynamic discourse about it. This David Pogue review of the ipad is great. And today’s review by Laura Miller at … Read more

i don’t wear makeup on weekends

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A cute ad from UK dating site Match.com I wrote about how I joined a dating site a few weeks back, by way of applying myself to the process of consciously working out what I like doing and who I am and what I can offer to the world. You have to do this when … Read more

a lesson from facebook: is it better to be liked or to have fans?

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I reckon I’d rather be liked. Last week Facebook announced: In the next two to three weeks, the “Become a Fan” concept for branded pages will be replaced with the more prevalent “Like” button and brands will no longer accumulate “Fans,” but “Connections” instead…the “Become a Fan” verbiage will disappear, being replaced by the simple … Read more

as you were

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I love this as as sign-off. “As you were”. My mate Gez says this to me when he hangs up from a good, deep chat. And someone emailed me this week,  out of the blue, with some random feedback (actually, the delightful Gala Darling‘s ex boyfriend to give his thoughts on my contact submission form … Read more

sunday life: a chat with Mitch Albom about faith

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This week I find my “right reason”…and get a little faith.

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On Tuesday I sat with Mitch Albom. Which is lovely and fitting, really, because Mitch wrote Tuesdays with Morrie, a book about how he spent Tuesdays sitting with a bloke called Morrie. Not read it? Well, Morrie is Mitch’s former teacher and is dying. Mitch is a sports journo from Detroit. Each week Mitch visits Morrie who, as he faces death, shares his compassionate insights with Mitch. The end. Or thereabouts.

Much like when I look at a Splade or a pair of Crocs, I’ve often wondered what possesses someone to spend years of their life creatively and myopically dedicated to something that, on paper, isn’t exactly a commercial shoo-in. I mean a book of wisdoms by a dying teacher and a sports hack…who was he kidding? Indeed, countless publishers knocked the book back.

But perhaps you know what comes next. Tuesdays with Morrie was finally published in 2000 for a modest fee. It became the biggest selling memoir in history. And Mitch has sold a whopping 28 million books since.

So the question I put to Mitch: what kept him writing?

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