The musings of an Aussie viewing the World waist high .... from a wheelchair
It has being very much a limbo time for me. December was a hard month. January is looking brighter; but I am waiting for some dots to connect. I’m waiting for a space with a new specialist. Looks like I’ll be waiting till May, which kind of means that I can’t really start the rebuilding [...]
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Dear All, I’m sending this out on a personal note. In simple terms this email is a thank you. It is international Day of People with Disability. I refuse to deal with Christmas till after today every year! Regardless of how stage managed events around it need to become to raise the profile, IDPwD is [...]
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I’ve always wanted to be a writer. A good writer. Partly because I love words and the way they can move both writer and reader of all types. But partly if I’m honest ( the new me now) because when well done, it seems it can be portable. I want to write because I want [...]
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Yay Congrats to Tony for getting there too. At least he had the manners to warn his readers. The voice dictation software helped somewhat as did good ol’ pen and paper. I have promised to let people read at least extracts but I must clean it up first! Possibly [...]
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Whoa what a strange week. Global and local highs and lows. Not sure what the parallels are if any but I think there will be some. It was a really personal time me, it was my birthday. It was a time for new technology, my own and others. It was a time for the best [...]
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The Children by Charlotte Wood My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews Saturday was a nice start to the Labor Day long weekend. A lowish tech day, but I was pleased to discover that it wasn’t hard to be low-tech. I read “The Children” by Australia author Charlotte Wood. I had read [...]
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This happened on my mothers local radio station. He’s a happy little vegemite, that’s at least a good sign for a foreign minister sprooking a “once Australian” production. Not that anyone will ask my opinion on the matter but for what it’s worth I think that the only “reasonable solution” (the time has [...]
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As I write this I’m listening to problogger interviewing Seth Godin on productivity and blogging. Is an interesting interview. The concept that is speaking out for me is talking as a solution to the writer’s block. He mentioned that the solution to his writers block is to write like you talk. Learn to [...]
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This was a Facebook meme style update from a friend. It was too clever to just leave on Facebook particularly give it is something I’ve noticed, Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he [...]
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My recent readings having included re-reading Socrates’ Apology (as reported we think by Plato). A passage has struck me: — apologies for the gendered language “You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He [...]
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