And I bet you don't give a rat's bottom.But I do need to start this by stating that I am a heterosexual married white female.Not transgender.Not homosexual.Not bisexual.Not queer at all if we're referring to sexuality.You still don't care right?I'm one of those humans...

In 1992 when I was 17 and half years old, I went with a bunch of other Scouting types (aged about 14-21) to Russia. It was a couple of short years after walls and curtains had collapsed around communist regimes and the youth in Soviet countries were starting to find...

In 2000 I had the good fortune to meet a girl from Indonesia who had talked her new husband into forgoing her dowry the year before so they could use the money to vaccinate the children in her village. She said that while the money would have been useful to them, it...

I was asked by a friend recently what was the hardest thing about being married to somebody from abroad was and my initial reply was to say 'Nothing really - he's British'.And then I realised they didn't mean culturally. (Though the Brits do have some very definite...

We're renters.You know, people that don't own a house.Mainly because we kind of hadn't really decided which country we were going to live in so like all good people faced with hard decisions we decided not to think about it.This century we've lived in three countries...

I can't make everything right. I can't magically fix the world. But every now and then I have the opportunity to stop the world being a little bit stupid by pointing out what is painfully obvious to almost everybody else but which some people just don't get.This is...

An apiarist if you would like to use the correct term.They have a farm up near Emerald. They sell their honey to Capilano which is great because that's my favourite honey and it's always nice to contribute to a conversation with a stranger with something positive even...

Once upon a time in a made up town in a sheep paddock, there lived a little girl.That little girl lived the life she lived. And she did alright at the living bit because one day she become a woman.This wasn't because she was blessed with the monthly bleeding that...

 Oh I know I know, it’s seven or so weeks in to the new year and it’s all about you! You've spent the last month and a half getting thinner, fitter, nicer, calmer, more chilled, less stressed and generally transforming into the perfect human being?You can’t. None...

Last week we became 'school parents'. As a super special sign of my love and devotion, on the night of Nick's birthday, I arranged a babysitter and we went to the first P&C (Parents and Citizens) committee meeting for 2016.Hey - they were serving BEER and WINE. It...

I run my own business. It's been going for just over two years now and it started small and it's gotten bigger and it's doing quite well these days.  I even have a wonderful team now. And an accountant. My beautiful man owns it with me but it's mine. My time, my...

In life I'm blessed in one way - I rarely crave 'sweets' as in chocolates or lollies.That's not to say that I can't put them away when presented to me but given the opportunity I'd rather snort cheese and inhale crack(ers).  It's just the way I am. More than a...