I live in a niche. Chances are, you do too — whether or not you’re aware of it. Allow me to explain. Many years ago, I used to jog several times a week. Occasionally, a running buddy would accompany me. …

Here’s a free piece of unsolicited advice: don’t give unsolicited advice. Wait! Don’t go! I promise that’s the last piece of hypocrisy I’ll be dishing out for at least 3 paragraphs. In all seriousness though, advice-giving is a tricky, complicated business. …

I have great respect for words. As a speech pathologist by day and a blog writer by (occasional) night, it would be problematic and confusing if I didn’t. But I don’t think all words have a place in our language. Don’t get me wrong; I’m no linguistic purist. My utterances…

The other day, I received a rather scary email. It addressed me by name and politely informed me that it had successfully hacked one of my accounts and here was my password. In order for my private particulars not to be shared with the wider world, here were the details…

While debate has raged around many aspects of our pandemic, there’s one thing we can pretty much all agree on: the whole situation has been one protracted series of emotional d*ck punches. About a week ago, a large portion of Australia’s population was downgraded from Stage 3 restrictions (severely limited…

It’s a mad time right now. Making it through a single conversation without encountering words like ‘unprecedented’ or ‘new normal’ is an almost insurmountable challenge. In the current cray-cray climate, almost every new day seems to herald a new list of things that we must or must not do in…

So far, 2020 has seemed like some sort of bad joke. The kind that, once cracked, earns you long, withering looks from anyone in earshot. In Australia, it started with the bushfire season from hell. Our air quality levels plummeted to among the worst in the entire world. Our landscapes…

The first half of 2020 has been a sh*t-storm of fairly monumental proportions. The kind usually reserved for bathrooms following Indian street food feasts. But to those who have weathered the COVID-storm and emerged on the other side, clearer skies are on the horizon. Our iso-diet has worked. The curve…

In stark contrast to our standard ‘She’ll be right’ approach, Aussies have begun genuinely prepping for the apocalypse. As one might imagine could occur in conjunction with end-of-world arrangements, there’s been a definitive up-tick in the supermarket sales of canned goods, bottled water and long life milk. And fair enough…