When you’re sick you do weird, mind–numbing things… like writing a list of all the movies you’ve ever seen (or can remember seeing) and then rating them to find your top 100. And, since I was sick over the weekend, I did just that! As I’m no movie buff, I could only remember 500. I think that’s probably a bit below average in terms of …

In response to a friend who rightly asked why we appear more saddened by Michael Jackson’s passing than we are when it comes to the death of thousands of children who die each day from poverty related causes, I humbly offer the following reflection…

First of all – I hear ya Josh! It’s true that the public seems far more saddened by the loss of this one man than …

The Ash Wednesday bush fires back in 1983 have been etched in the memory of Australians ever since. With 75 lives claimed by the tragedy I don’t think we ever imagined that its devastation could have been matched, let alone exceeded. Yet, this past week, that is exactly what has happened in the south east of this ‘lucky country’. Bushfires, so ferocious and with inconceivable speed that for so …

Oreo Shake

Calorie conscience? No, there hasn’t been a typo. While I’m also talking (generally) about being calorie conscious, what has struck me anew, after reading over America’s ‘20 Worst Foods’ list for 2009, is the need for food manufacturers to have a calorie conscience. 

The number one place getter on the aforementioned ‘20 Worst Foods’ list was none other than Baskin Robbins’ Large Chocolate Oreo Shake. With between …

Summer and I were never gunna be ‘besties.’ I hate the heat! I really, really, really don’t like it… and when it’s both hot and humid, it’s just SO much worse. The stickiness is inescapable and, when the air is so thick with moisture, it can be difficult just to breathe. I have friends that live in Darwin who think there’s no greater place on earth …