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Emma Sparkes-Carroll

  • In the Kitchen Out and About in Sydney Small Things

    Friday night & Beef Rendang

    September 19, 2016 Read More
  • In the Garden

    Hurstville Garden Diary 19 Sep 2016

    September 19, 2016 Read More
  • On Living a Full Life

    Coming home, starting again

    August 19, 2016 Read More
  • On Living a Full Life

    Evensong: Allowing Time and Space for Awe

    October 14, 2015 Read More
  • On Living a Full Life

    Reconnect With Your First Loves

    August 16, 2015 Read More
  • On Living a Full Life

    Are You Devaluing People by Multi-tasking?

    August 11, 2015 Read More
  • On Living a Full Life

    Living Fully: 10 Tips For Your Toolkit

    July 17, 2015 Read More
  • On Living a Full Life

    5 Steps to Living More Courageously

    June 28, 2015 Read More
  • In the Garden

    September Beauty: Coneflowers

      This month’s beauty comes courtesy of the High Line in Manhattan, New York. I had the absolute pleasure of wandering the walkways of this rejuvenated railway track several days ago and these Coneflowers caught my…

    September 30, 2015
  • On Living a Full Life

    Changing the World Through a Simple Choice: Thankyou Body Care

      Changing the world through a simple choice. This is the mission of Australian social enterprise, Thankyou. I noticed their Patchouli and Vanilla Hand Wash on the shelf at Coles some months ago. It was actually their…

    August 28, 2015
  • In the Kitchen

    August Beauty: Seasonal Cooking and a Tangelo Cake

    I have never eaten a tangelo before, not that I remember. But for the last week, I have had five juicy specimens giggling at me from my fruit bowl. I bought them because my…

    August 28, 2015
  • On Living a Full Life

    Reconnect With Your First Loves

    I spent the last ten years not pursuing joy. I had times of thankfulness, of happiness, but I walked through the better part of a decade of my life feeling restless, feeling like I…

    August 16, 2015
  • On Living a Full Life

    Are You Devaluing People by Multi-tasking?

        I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning…

    August 11, 2015
  • In the Garden

    August Beauty: Camellias

      This delicate little beauty caught my eye at the Sydney Botanic Gardens last week. It’s a Camellia but not the C.japonica variety I’m used to, which is also flowering everywhere I look at…

    August 10, 2015
  • On Living a Full Life

    Reflections: Living Without Alcohol, Coffee and Plastic for a Month

    As part of an exercise in reassessing and realigning my values and actions, I challenged myself in July to go without three things that are a regular part of my life: alcohol, coffee and…

    August 5, 2015
  • Out and About in Sydney

    All You Need Is Love

    I am a big fan of Australian director, Kip Williams. I’ve seen a few of his plays over the last couple of years and I’ve been impressed with each one’s beauty in interpretation and…

    July 31, 2015
  • On Living a Full Life

    Celebrating Small Wins

    Last Sunday, my church held a ‘Celebration’ service to help us reflect on all the things we’re thankful for and for where we can see God moving and working in our lives day-to-day. It…

    July 21, 2015
  • The Reading List

    5 Things Bear Grylls Has Taught Me

      About a month ago, I found myself moved to action by a sudden realisation that much of what I do in life is motivated by fear. I was literally moved – I had been sitting in North…

    July 18, 2015
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Emma Sparkes-Carroll

Emma Sparkes-Carroll

Emma is a writer. She lives with her husband in Sydney, Australia. She is passionate about living a full life. She loves things of beauty and honesty – especially where they combine, like in the writings of C.S.Lewis and Virginia Woolf, and in Sydney's Botanic Herb Garden.

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