My sister's partner recently died from cancer. It was a particularly aggressive form of cancer, and from diagnosis to death, there was less than a year. A couple of weeks ago, as I was driving to work,

I made my own entertainment. I took this quote from a post I wrote a week ago called Finding Rest. In the post, I was alluding to the fact that when I was young, I didn't have access to a lot of the

As I write this, I'm settling into the first week of school holidays (what a feeling!), and while it's very pleasant not having to go through the usual rigmarole of getting ready and being out the door

Disconnect and see your students thrive as they learn how to develop algorithms using this 'computerless' method.

Around 5:25pm on Saturday August 21st, in Melbourne; Acting Sergeant Kristian Schouten fired rubber bullets at unarmed members of the public, under orders from Special Operations Group Superintendent Jamie

Last night, when I turned on the television to watch our local news broadcast, I was greeted with the good and uplifting (insert sarcasm) story that the Taliban was on the brink of entering Kabul, and

Image Source: Jay DuttA - Unsplash I was driving the other day and just happened to notice a lot of those thin black squiggly lines that snake their ways across most roads I travel. Now, it's not like

Impulsive. Ms Moore sued her local council after she inadvertently injured herself attempting to hammer a nail into her wall using her forehead. In a remarkable new precedent for Australia’s legal system,

A teacher has been astounded at an unprecedented 100% attendance in her Friday afternoon lesson. Source: Feliphe Schiarolli. A well-respected, long-serving teacher from a school located in Adelaide’s northern

Simple: this is the puzzle that one social media user has found to be offensive in it's simplicity. A disgruntled southern suburbs man has gone on a social media tirade after it took him less than ten

Smashing the keto diet so far this year and gave some bagels a crack. They taste pretty darn good. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

Like it or not, drones have slowly permeated our lives, and love them, or hate them, the already large list of applications for this technology is growing. From food and parcel delivery, to long range

Awakenings I saw, for the first time in my life, the fine line that separates sanity from insanity, and believe you me, it is cartainly a very fine line. Some who cross it, know when they do. They can

I may well be biased, but could she sell nappies, or what!! Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

Have you ever slept peacefully, waking in the morning, refreshed and energised, ready to start a brand new day, only to get the news that something terrible has happened during the night? Many of us can

The Wife The letter seared itself into my hands. As if it was a red-hot poker that I was holding. Had Harold written to me just before the unthinkable? Was he dead? I daren't start reading just in case

Hi there folks. I hope you're doing well out there. I'm going to use this post to offload a little. I hope you don't mind. I've got a few things that have been floating around in the old brain of mine,

This is the second and final part of a story inspired by a portion of a song titled Simple Man, originally performed by The Charlie Daniels Band. If you are yet to do so, it is probably best to read the

I wrote this, intending it to be a single post, however, it turned out to be an approximate half hour read, so I thought it would be better to make it two parts. That way, if you don't have the time, you

The problem with death is that it's messy. Not always in the 'bloody' sense, as those slasher-type films would have you believe, but in the sense that someone is always affected by it. Now, it's true,