Congratulations! Today you graduate from High School. Never again the tree-green uniforms, the piercing bells, the racing helter-skelter to catch...

Remember High School? Where the scent of Clearasil and BO mingled with raging Testosterone and Oestrogen to create a terrifying cocktail of angst....

Today is the first Father's Day that I haven't spent hours sifting through cards to find the perfect blend of humour and love. The few pithy...

Up until this week, my house had holes punched in the ceiling. To be more exact, there were four squarish holes carefully scattered like stars in...

Patience is not my strong suit. Let's be more specific. When you look up the word "patience" in a dictionary - in the antonym section (the opposite...

The exhausted mother, glassily patting the back of her baby who has filled her ears with pained sobs from dusk to dawn. The frail old man, carefully...

Early this year, over one of our many coffee chats, I asked my father to tell me his top 5 life highlights and what made them stand out. He gave me...

"He is dead - which is why he can't come to the phone and talk to you. D-E-A-D, deceased, no longer living". I exclaimed forcefully in the phone to...

I had an interesting conversation with my dad the other day - he is in his 80's now. But when I asked him how old he felt inside he said, "I am not...

The other evening, I was speaking at a meeting of 50 or so web designers and web developers in Brisbane. As I stood up and gazed around the darkened...

Many people wait for things to be "perfect" before they pursue their dreams and goals. They wait for the perfect conditions, the perfect attitude,...