My New Year’s resolution for 2018 was to do a piece of trackable activity everyday. I normally don’t go for such resolutions but having had serious injuries in the previous two years and with my fitness declining and my weight ballooning out to the heaviest I’ve ever been meant I had to take action. […]
Category Archives: Family
Conversation Survival Strategies
The ‘conversation survival guide’ is topical at this time of year as many people mix with family and associates that do not hold congruent political and social values. Here are three: 1. How to survive your conservative relatives this Christmas The piece I wrote last year for SBS: It’s that time of year again: when extended family comes together […]
Frank and Robot
Go and see it. Great track. “Fell On Your Head” by Francis and the Lights. The point isn’t whether or not he was going to kill himself, it was that he had a moment of lucidity — and he wanted to share that with his kids; and when he was debating whether or not to […]
Economies of Competence
I was forwarded the below email. I am posting it here with comment below for anyone who was also sent the email and who finds it as abhorrent as I do. I make a simple argument below to indicate its fallacies: An economics teacher at a local school made a statement that he had never […]
Brief Photo Essay of My Childhood 1
Some photos from my first excursion around my old neighbourhood. I was feeling a bit diown being back in Perth. I basically didn’t want to be here and was feeling home sick for Sydney. A friend suggested I walk around to the various places that were important for my childhood. She was in Melbourne with […]