Women's voices: Helen Reddy, Long Hard Climb. Capitol Records - Billboard, 11, August 1973, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org Women's voices letting out your inner roar The day the great Helen Reddy had died, I was speaking to another strong mother about telling women’s voices and their stories. She is smart and the family organiser – a logistics make-it-happen family member. We talked about her admirable parents and their partnership. Then we began talking…

Just why do some women resist telling their story and why they should.

We come from tough stock. Hearing our family history will help us realise we will survive coronavirus. State Library Victoria/Bert Knights, c1930 Domain, Sydney. Nearly every person you speak to when you start asking about family stories will have a story of lament. Their parents, an aunt, uncle, cousin or friend who should have written their life story. They just never got around to it or they might do it one day.…

This is something I had published elsewhere. It's not life story telling, but it gets the message across about thinking on your feet. Believe it or not, you need that when a life story teller throws a curly one at you.   I wrote my first ever news room story on a typewriter. Each paragraph was numbered and printed on carbon paper – one page to the editor, one to the sub-editor…