About

Book Four is my autobiography, being written in real time.

Book One is the story of my parents, who migrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950’s, and after many hours of interviews with them, I finished writing that in 2020.

Book Two, as yet unwritten, is the story of my growing up, from a child through primary school and high school. I kept a fairly thorough diary through those years, and so I have a lot of inspiration to base the book on.

Book Three is the story of meeting my husband and starting our unique family. I’m gay (as is my husband), and we have twins who were born through surrogacy. It was an incredible journey which I documented in a blog for many years. For various reasons, I decided to take the blog down and I repurposed the entries into the story of those years.

Book Four is what happens next. What is happening right now, as I raise the children and hold down a career. It’s my story of growing old. The blog came about because I wanted to write down all these things in my mind that are going on, to make sure I can document them for my kids. I could have just written a book, or kept a private diary, but neither of those felt right.

To be honest, this blog might end up also not quite feeling right. Lets test it out and see. If you’re reading this, I haven’t yet given up on it.

So that is what this blog is about. It’s my personal thoughts that I think are important musings and anecdotes that will eventually form the basis of my own Book Four.