Last weekend we hosted my mother’s side of the family for a last hurrah Christmas gathering. Over time we’ve decided that December is too busy for all 17 of us to get together, so a few years ago we decided to shift our annual gathering to early January. Takes a bit of the pressure off […]
Many years ago – last century in fact – when I was in Grade 5 (told you it was a long time ago!), I went off to a week long Writers Camp. There were about six kids from my school, and similar from other schools around the region. We spent a week writing stories, and […]
Like many others, I’ve been watching the antics of the US government this week with a level of disbelief. It had been threatened for a long time, but were they actually going to shut down their government? And what exactly did that mean? I watched on the news the reports of the things that matter […]
Okay, okay, I am probably leaning towards the melodrama with that title, so I should state upfront that this post will be more about dancing than about the Devil. Not sure about moonlight but we’ll see where we end up. You may think that dancing and the Devil are unusual things to have in the […]
As part of the recent Victorian Small Business Festival, I listened in on a webinar about story telling presented by Valerie Khoo. Whilst story telling is as old as language, Valerie asserts that it’s an art form that is rapidly falling by the wayside in this day of data, spreadsheets, graphs and the like. When […]
After what I will politely call a winter break, last weekend I headed back to the pool for some quality lap time. Yes it’s good for the exercise, makes me feel better, provides amusement for those that get to see my goggle marks afterwards, etc, but I must admit that there’s also an element to […]