Life: Mostly Harmless!
Life: Mostly Harmless
How to Keep Your Soul Working for a Corporation
My head rested on the glass window of the morning train heading into the city - my eyes staring into the distance, looking at nothing in particular....
End Of An Era – Last Day Of Primary School
Tomorrow my youngest child finishes primary school. No more "little lunches". No more head lice (hopefully). No more one teacher for every subject....
What I Wish I Had Known As A Teenager
Last night I spoke at AIM, as part of the Brisbane Business Writers Week. We packed out the auditorium and had a load of fun with very interesting...
What Would You Do Differently In Life?
My dad is 80 and has lived a very full and successful life as a scientist and University Lecturer. But like many kids, until recently I had not had...
Gordo The Once Stray Cat
Gordo was a stray cat ... or to be more precise, a stray kitten. No one can quite remember how this tiny wild kitten came to be in a pet shop in...
As Dead As A Silent Movie
This is a tale of two movies. Both outstanding in their own way. Both with lessons for businesses that care to listen. The first movie is Avatar....
What Does Your Stuff Say About You?
Every day we are bombarded with information. If we took in everything we see, touch, smell, and taste in full our memory circuits would overload,...
A Personal Reflection on The Psychology of Ageing
I admit it. I have been distracted lately as I have been watching my mother age before my eyes. You see just two short years back my mother was a...
The Web 20 Years On & My 20 Year Net Anniversary
These past few days have been a whirlwind. I have been at the World Internet Summit with the ubiquitous long days and nights with many different...
Today My Baby Started High School
Like many mums in Australia, today is back to school day. But in our household, today was a special day - the day when my baby started High School....
The Sins of the Father
Today I am picking up the pieces of a life, not my life but someone else’s life. I am finding the shattered shards of a heart and putting them into...