“What makes you happy?” I ask the question of an old woman on a green mountainside beyond the remote village of Same, five hours inland...

“Rough day at work, hey?” says my fifteen year old with a grin when she comes home and notices the first draft for our upcoming...

The moment I spot the mobile phone I flash an eyebrow at our photographer. It says “Damn it, can we get that out of there? If not...

Being a decent human doesn't usually just happen. If we're keen to work on our professional development, why not our personal as well?

In the lead up to what should have been Hugh’s eleventh birthday, I find myself thinking about the barbed wire and the paddock. That’s...

Tony Abbott probably feels like he falls into that last category. Browsing the Guardian online over my shoulder, Brydie notices one of...

Australian Government announced this week that we’ll be permanently giving new homes to 12,000 Syrians refugees fleeing war in their...

As the Indian Doctor murmurs over my collapsed and invisible arm vein in an attempt to get in a line, I find myself hanging onto Doug’s...

Will power.  Exceptionally unappealing in the two-year-old who has her shoe in your face and refuses to leave the carseat, but pretty...

The other day I disappeared down a rabbit hole into a biblical cyber-wonderland where I stumbled upon an intriguing website.  It promised...

There.  I said it. Yes, we’re hearing reports of people traumatised by lack of access to drinking water, injured in riots, held in...

It’s probably not safe but it feels great.  Brydie and I have somehow managed to jam a foot each onto her scooter and are hurtling down...

Sometimes I do those personality quizzes that tell you what kind of animal you are and I find out I’m a hippo with the head of squirrel...

Earlier, from the safety of the other side of the street while cars sniffed each other and we waited for the Green Man to usher us...

I got the news that I’m actually married to a twenty one year old by text, as you’d expect.  Apparently he’d done one of those online...

“Bury him deep in love.  Bury him deep in love. Take him in, under your wing.  Bury him deep in love.” These are words from a Jimmy...

Somewhere along the line, church stopped being sexy.  (What?  You thought…? Right. No.  I think that’s the other fantasising blog.  This...

So religion will be extinct by 2035 and it’ll mostly be the fault of do-gooder organisations like the ones I work for who are trying to...

Jem and Brydie have chosen kittens and puppies wearing Santa hats for the Christmas cards they’re giving to all their friends at school....