Would You Really Do Anything?
We recently gave ourselves a Supernatural marathon, and along with how much the character of Sam Winchester annoys me, I have been thinking about selling souls and what people do when they really ...
About Anzac Day
Saturday 25 April is Anzac Day. Along with Australia Day, it marks a key date in the development of both our Australian national character and calendar. I think it is actually ...
Observations on Easter
While I was christened an Anglican, my family wasn’t deeply religious so I don’t know much about Easter (and don’t see it as significant). But I do know that for a ...
Appropriating the Spaciousness of Silence
I’ve always spent a lot of time alone inside my head, and this quiet alone time is where my creative ideas come from. While I was an employed project manager the little ideas ...
More String Theory
I was having so much fun with the Fates that I wanted to talk about more string theory; last time was old old school mythology so why not go ultra ...
On International Women’s Day
I just found out that March 8 is (was) International Women’s Day. I only found out because I’m catching up on my reading (now that Stress Free Dinner Parties is on ...
A Short List of Annoyingly Long Productivity Suggestions
This time of year is productivity central. Annoying productivity suggestions in the form of lists of tips and hacks and apps are coming in thick and fast. I mean really… ...
Young Spirit v Older Body
I received a not-for-profit solicitation in the mail the other day. It’s an organisation that I believe does worthwhile work in the local and international communities. I have supported it for ...
The Perfidy of Modern Life
I am exercised today by the perfidy of modern life. That whole “We can get a man on the moon, but we can’t do x.” kind of thing. Realistically, there ...
Ten Ways to Make Guests Turn Up for Your Dinner Parties
I’ve been busily writing Stress Free Dinner Parties, my book explaining in an agreeably witty fashion (if I do say so myself) how to plan and host a dinner party. But I ...
Five Life Lessons Confirmed Through Painting
We’ve had some warmer days so I’ve been taking a break from the garden and catching up on some inside work instead. And learning five life lessons while I’m at it. ...
About Australia Day
Today (26 January) is my national day; Australia Day. On this day in 1788, our first Governor Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Sydney Cove with the First Fleet to establish the first British ...
Amazingly Unlikely Birth and Death
As you know, I’m working in the garden. Observing birth and death, but mainly just weeding the last few days… Which led to the appalling discovery that I can’t see ...
There was nothing more to do…
I was the happy recipient of a kidney transplant in 2011. I’d been so sick for so long that I was considering stopping treatment – there was nothing more to do…
What Wisdom?
What wisdom? I see it as a very practical kind of everyday thinking. A little book learning, the capacity to read a situation and the ability to use that information to make a ...
The Virtue of Wisdom
So, wisdom huh? Not just nous, but a bit of book smarts too. A little something to have my back when I am out in the trenches defending my point ...