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Dear Adam Mansbach, when you wrote THAT book, Go the **#@ to sleep, politely dual-released as, Seriously just go to sleep, I read it and I laughed. I try not to make profanities a part of my everyday vocab, but I laughed the laugh of a...

Moving somewhere new can be hard work but finally, thankfully, it’s starting to feel like we have found our tribe (thanks Seth Godin) and in the village where we live the connections are getting stronger. Six months ago we moved from the close community of a...

Hotel Urban St Kilda Melbourne is no prince but there is plenty of milk. 35-37 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda Victoria 3182 Australia +61 3 8530 8888 https://hotelurban.com.au/melbourne We’d stayed at The Prince before. It was just around the corner from Hotel Urban St Kilda in Fitzroy Street.  Being unorganised...

What if you could read a book without taking your hands off the steering wheel? or discover the steps to a new career.  All this in the time it takes to drive from Brisbane to Sydney.  Would it change your mind about long distance driving? Our family drives...

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics I'm one of only 50% of adult australians who does or can read more than a basic form. I think that's scary and more than a little bit sad. Australia, the lucky country, where education is in abundance and free...

A book written by Kate Holden. I started reading it and then I wanted to put it down almost immediately. And I did. [caption id="attachment_1051" align="alignleft" width="225"] Kate Holden's maiden book[/caption] Kate Holden’s In my skin a memoir is her first book. Published in 2005 it’s not a...

Trying new things can be scary but the feeling you get when you come out the other side is amazing and it's why I highly recommend to be scared and do it anyway. Last weekend, at the Mudgee Readers Festival in New South Wales,  I had the...

It's cold it's dark and you don't want to get out of bed and the little voice in your head is saying why bother.  It's telling you...

So a not so funny thing happened to me not the way on my Delta Flight to NYC.  Right before I touched down in LA, I  started to feel like my insides were cramping up on themselves. And then I got off the plane, where I...

World Trade Centre 9/11 memorial, what a humbling place to be. Tears come to my eyes and I feel like crying my heart out when I think of the 3,000 people who lost their lives working here and saving people who worked here. So many people are here laughing,...