March 2009

true confessions

March 27, 2009

Ok. Are you ready? At the risk of making a fool of myself ….. I am hooked on The Biggest Loser. I know what those of you that have known me in real life will think. I am after all the girl that didn’t own a television for 5 years. I used to gloat about [...]

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I landed

March 26, 2009

We have landed in Melbourne. It was the most ordinary and seemless unload I’ve ever done. Thanks Qantas Possibly Related Posts: Doing the limbo The email I wrote for international day last year Just writing Vale Common Sense Moments with Socrates — making choices

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Op Ed

March 24, 2009

My work requires a lot of advocacy. Usually systemic in nature. Arguing the case for the holistic inclusion of the needs of people with disabilities into the way places do business. Trying to make it easy for the decision makers to look good and if your very lucky understand why such policies will work. It [...]

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St Thomas said

March 21, 2009

What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself will destroy you Possibly Related Posts: Just writing Weekend and quasi-book review Moments with Socrates — making choices 6WS: late I haven’t forgotten

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A library all my own

March 8, 2009

I  have been sporadically following Tony’s blog for at least 18 months now. He is a Church of England vicar from Oxford who wouldn’t know me from a bar of soap. I like the way he thinks. In a recent post about Lent he said;  But then came the double whammy. Alison informed me that [...]

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Views from the edges Part 1

March 7, 2009

I was there yesterday. squeezed into the back of the church for the funeral of one of my inspirations; Matt Laffan  That was hard. The fact he was only 7 years older than me and died of complications from his disability is even harder. Possibly Related Posts: Doing the limbo The email I wrote for [...]

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We are shrinking and maybe not just the economy

March 5, 2009

It seems official. Australia has just experienced its first quarter of negative growth in 8 years with a drop of half a percent in the GDP.  We are spending less after the aparent boom of the past 17 years. As Peter Hatcher as pointed out this must be exceedingly frustruteding for the Government. For Rudd [...]

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