Sincere apologies for lapse in blogging

Hello everyone,

I do hope you decide to come here and visit even though I've neglected my blog site lately.
There's been family matters (health), I've been giving talks about our book, Loris and Lucy's Later Life Guide and finishing off the academic year. Only three units to go now for my Master of Arts (Writing and Literature). Tonight I have an interview on ABC radio - I thought all the media stuff was over and done with but this one popped up. Of course, I welcome and appreciate any opportunity to talk about women and health/wellbeing.

This week I gave a talk at WIRE - Women's Information and Referral Exchange in Melbourne, Australia. This organisation does a wonderful job of providing support and advice for women, no matter what their problem or situation. As always, it was a pleasure to meet women and hear their views. I always come away with ideas for my next talk which as it happens, is to a Warrandyte group. For those who are not Melburnians or Australians, Warrandyte is about 20km east of Melbourne (in Victoria), heading toward our famous wine country, the Yarra Valley. The valley is named after the Yarra River. A delightful restaurateur, Jo, has organised a light lunch for the event and this will occur before the talk. A glass of wine and good food should put everyone in the right mood!

Since I last entered a blog a close relative has had a heart stent placed in an artery. Luckily, she was aware of the family history re heart and had all the right checks before finally confronting surgery. How lucky we are to have this lifesaving operation in our generation.

As heart health issues are becoming more important to women I hope to be able to contribute in some way to disseminating information on this subject, particularly in the country areas. I'm now looking into this possibility - combining perhaps talks on general later life health with a special mention for heart health. Of course, our book has a Heart section.

Do send your messages and stories about life in 2008. Love hearing from fellow bloggers.

By the way, to all those golfers (I'm not one yet but...) - how good was Tiger Woods' win in that latest championship? He's a genius - and all with a bung knee, too. What an inspiration! Never give up!

I promise to blog more frequently while the uni holidays are on.

In the meantime, wishes for good health and fun to all.

Camille.