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Please welcome to the stage…
Meet our baby son. He kinda looks like every other 20 week old foetus, but he’s healthy and I’m overwhelmingly grateful for that. Here are his feet. Every other photo we took home makes him look like a monkey. Not … Continue reading
Kindness, there and back again
Larry Curtis, self professed consumer of pop culture and taster of taste, re-tweeted his post about an unreported act of kindness on the set of The Hobbit movie. It’s as cryptic as it is warming and delightful and I encourage … Continue reading
Thrice a band, always a band
One of my favourite bands is Thrice. Dustin Kensrue is their lead vocalist and lyricist, he really writes the most amazing lyrics. Here is one of their songs, Words in the Water, from their latest album Major/Minor. The imagery in … Continue reading
In an earlier post I told you about my Great Outback Flying Adventure in which Husband and I, along with my sister and her husband, hired a plane and flew ourselves (by that I mean Husband) around outback Australia. This … Continue reading
Australian Culture 101: What not to say in Australia
Planning a visit to Australia? Want to know more about one of nature’s little aberrations?* I’ll help you out by letting you in on a secret about what not to say in Australia. Let me do so by telling you a story: … Continue reading
Places to see… Vietnam
One of the great things about being in Australia is that Asia is your neighbourhood. I’ve travelled quite a bit throughout Asia for work and my absolute favourite country is Vietnam. If you’re after a true “Asia” experience you must … Continue reading
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Of anyone in the world, you would you have over for dinner? As cliche as it is, this is the question husband and I asked each other last night. If we wanted to fill our dining table – who would … Continue reading
Making cats howl and other useful talents
We each have strengths, we all have weaknesses. The trick is to determine what are yours, rather than what you wish them to be. This is no easy task but putting yourself out there as a world class operatic singer … Continue reading
The Incredible Story of Harry: Lest We Forget
I’d like to tell you a story, a story of a man who was both a product of his time and someone who bucked the trend in remarkable ways. His name is Harry. Harry was one of 5 children who’s, … Continue reading
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