I felt that the reunion I attended was an opportunity to make peace with some aspects of the past, but what has proven a setback was something that happened the other night. I was looking on Facebook for messages and what should I see but a message request from a…

I saw a preposterous article by the ridiculous doctor who claims that men and women cannot be platonic friends that gave advice about how to get over your ex. The first thing I say is, there are six stages you go through after a relationship breakup and you cannot advise…

Well, I did something I didn’t think I would or could do, tonight. I went to a school reunion. And I’m glad I did, too. I needed to do my preparatory tasks in the afternoon, and I had a nagging doubt in my mind as to whether I was making…

When I went to Japan, in 1996, I spoke to a Japanese person in Japanese who, in turn, turned to the Japanese person beside them to answer my question, and that person said, “I didn’t speak to you; the foreigner on the other side did.” There are two possible explanations…

I remember a smart Alec teenage kid asking me if my four cylinder car was a V8 and my joking response was that it used to be but it shrank when I drove it through a car wash. He didn’t know what to think about that. Whenever there is information…

“What do you think will happen if you get sick, again, and I have to take you up to see that doctor, again? What do you think he’ll say? You’re still puny! You haven’t done anything to develop a chest like I told you.” These were the words my mother…

The fifth Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, whose name adorns a bank, a radio network, a Port city further to the north of that state and a university, Lachlan Macquarie, condoned and ordered massacres of the First Nations Peoples, but at the same time, came into conflict…

Not the weekend just gone but the weekend before that, my family held a gathering for my father’s birthday, which was last week. My brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew and my brother’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law came over. My nephew got into a foul mood and my brother later said that he…

When I was 12, I went on a holiday to a small seaside town, with my family. The time of the holiday was pivotal for me, as the week before was hell for me at school, but was relieved only a guy in Year Ten to whom I was grateful…