A new Mom’s take on Motherhood
This post originally appeared about 4 years on a blog that no longer exists called Urban Jungle Moms. Worth a read... The greatest 'isms'...
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Simone Penn
- Feb 12, 2020
- 2 min
A word on Love
A man named George San once wrote: ‘There is only one happiness in this life to love and be loved in return...’ I have been blessed with...
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Simone Penn
- Feb 6, 2020
- 2 min
11 moves in 8 years? NBD.
It’s no secret the Penns have basically gypsy’d their way around Glenhazel for the better part of the last decade. We’ve moved from: Penn...
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Simone Penn
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
What can you do as well as Adele makes Music?
The last blog I wrote was on the 21st of November 2019. In fact that was the last ‘anything’ that I wrote. It was roughly six weeks ago...
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Simone Penn
- Nov 21, 2019
- 2 min
Dear Tiny House, I miss you.
I used to watch Tiny House video clips and feel elated, inspired and exhilarated; but now I feel a deep hollow ache. Fourteen months ago,...
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Simone Penn
- Nov 13, 2019
- 3 min
Toothpaste; not Wi-Fi causes cancer.
Being the (self-appointed) social commentator that I am I’ve been intrigued (read: terrified) by all the hype surrounding Wi-Fi, radio...
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Simone Penn
- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min
Sometimes my Sustainability Paralyses me.
I’m pretty much your text book A-Type perfectionist by nature. So it’s taken A LOT of work to try and make my sustainability efforts...
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Simone Penn
- Nov 9, 2019
- 4 min
My all time, favorite question.
‘Is this working for you?’ Is my all time favorite question. I ask myself, and my family, and my friends, and the people I work with,...
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Simone Penn
- Nov 3, 2019
- 3 min
I am NOT a minimalist.
This article originally appeared in the AISH UK pre-Rosh Hashana 5780 magazine. See Below. Herewith, the unedited version: Confession...
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Simone Penn
- Nov 3, 2019
- 3 min
You never forget your First Love
Turns out I’m in this on-again-off-again relationship with my birthplace. Once upon a time a therapist told me that any real, good and...
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Simone Penn
- Oct 31, 2019
- 3 min
Screen Time ruminations 2 – are we creating emotional watchers?
The other day I was at a kid-friendly restaurant with Ayden and Judah. A few other “after-school-mom-and-child” parties joined us, as is...
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Simone Penn
- Oct 17, 2019
- 3 min
Oh Screen Time; what will we do with you?
So we’ve just come out of the first part of Sukkot 5780 and it was, Baruch HaShem, magical. In fact the whole “season”’of chaggim have...
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Simone Penn
- Oct 6, 2019
- 4 min
The parenting maxims I hold by - that have survived Parenthood!
I often recount what an outstanding mother I was before I became a mother. I was going to: exclusively breast feed my children until they...
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Simone Penn
- Sep 22, 2019
- 6 min
Healthcare Hacks
I love tracking my progress and documenting my achievements. I think we all do. I actually think that’s the true reason why social media...
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Simone Penn
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
South Africa, my love...
‘It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you…’ -Toto, 1981 A lot of people have to work hard to stay positive about the country that...
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Simone Penn
- Sep 11, 2019
- 3 min
The Truth about the ECOPOD (take 1).
A few weeks, or maybe now it’s even a few months, ago I wrote that ‘home is not a house but a feeling’ and that these are the sentiments...
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Simone Penn
- Aug 20, 2019
- 3 min
My Ultimate ZEROTOX How-To
Let me start by saying that this is an extreme picture. Well, for me it's the extreme picture and its taken about eight years of...
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Simone Penn
- Aug 12, 2019
- 2 min
I Can’t Fast Another Year.
Tonight is Tisha B’Av. Well actually tonight is the 10th of Av but we are fasting for the next 25 hours, primarily in mourning for the...
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Simone Penn
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
Sustainable Sustainability
This post comes as a summary of the sustainability changes I’ve made, and maintained, in my life over the last few years. I think it’s so...
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Simone Penn
- Aug 2, 2019
- 2 min
FOMO
A few days ago I was just observing Judah. He was hanging out in the kitchen just being himself and he seemed so at ease. I sent a...
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