This post has no expletives, unlike the much liked and first ‘Letting go‘. Maybe this is just a poor sequel, like in the movies. But just like the orginal, I write this with some emotion. I write after a message from a friend in the USA. She is grieving over a tragic loss of two …
Category Archive: 8. Leftovers
As the name suggests - uncategorised thoughts and musings
Sep 23
Sydney for … life
What the clip doesn’t show is how much my whole family enjoyed staying in Sydney for a few days. I live in Perth but I have always liked Sydney and know my way around it, ever since my water polo days. It was great to catch up with Malyn Mawby but I sadly missed a …
Jun 20
A human adventure
Yesterday, I completed my second marathon (2011 Perth Marathon). Nothing spectacular about it, just a lot of honest effort in training before and on the day. Despite a solid time improvement on the first one (17 minutes), a series of painful cramps over the last 17 kilometres left a feeling that I could have done …
Jun 10
Helix
Do you like ballet? It doesn’t matter. Last night, my wife and I saw Helix. Helix is not your ‘typical’ ballet. It’s a solo performance by Daryl Brandwood, an accomplished Western Australian Ballet dancer. The ballet was created collaboratively with and for Daryl by Barry Moreland, a family friend and a well known name in …
Feb 06
Flow
I had never liked running. In fact, I had quite disliked it. Unless I had to, I’d never ran more than a few kilometres in training (water polo) or entered a big city fun run every few years. It all changed last March. I got a ‘sedentary’ job at Moodle HQ after a decade spending …
Nov 29
e-Samaritans
On the way to work this morning, a dishevelled, confused, coughing and sick-looking man in his fifties stepped into our train carriage. The train was reasonably full with morning city commuters, just about all of them (usually ‘us’ but not this morning for some reason) plugged in to some device or immersed in a book …
Nov 26
And the 2010 nominees are …
Feels like a year ago since I unfairly nominated only a few people for The Edublog Awards 2009. Unfairly because there are so many I would like to thank and mention but you know how the Oscar speeches go, right …? Here are my nominees for The 2010 Edublog Awards: Best individual blog Im-bloody-possible task …
Oct 26
Lessons from Dazzling Daz
Daryl Howe is a runner. He has completed a number of marathons around the world – London, New York, ‘Two Oceans’ in South Africa and many more. He usually makes the 42.2km long course in just over five hours (elite athletes do it in just over two, majority around four hours). But he is a …
Oct 01
One for the boys
Tonight, I went to an evening with Steve Biddulph (well, a moderated screening of a presentation elsewhere), an Australian author who has written a number of parenting books with particular focus on boys. His ‘Raising Boys‘ is the only parenting book I admit to have read … because I don’t exactly read those. The night …
Jul 17
A mighty unplug
Unplugging a bit is healthy. I have just returned from a month of long flying (with two young kids), welcome and goodbye kisses, visits to relatives, ‘pigging out’ on summer berries of all kinds, cave visiting, gondola riding, kids first touches of snow and fun with it (high altitude), balmy strolls, visits to farms, family …
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