Elise Hawthorne Jason Minty is in my eyes the king of taste. Let me make it quite clear upfront, shopping for hours, visiting multiple stores or a shopping centre is…

Jenny Cottle Climate Change is something that is and will increasingly affect everyone on the planet. Environmentally these effects are increasingly worrying to say the least. Most air pollution is…

Brenda Janschek Like most busy mums (is that a tautology?), there are some days when I dread having to come up with yet another meal at short notice. However, when…

Bret Harding Hello gentle reader and thanks again for joining the team each week. This week’s missive stems from my reading of a great biography of Johnny Cash written by…

Brenda Janschek What on earth do you do when you’re bumping up against the end of the food shopping cycle and find yourself stumped for dinner options? It seems like…

Craig Priddle There is some interesting research available on www.psychologytoday.com on comedians conducted by Gil Greengross Ph.D. I’ve been looking at it because I’ve been trying to figure out why…

Dijanna Mulhearn Job-hunting is nerve-wracking at best and right now you can count on your competition pulling out all stops. The first impression counts as much as your resume, so…

Elise Hawthorne Margarita Georgiadis is a mesmerising, multi talented Australian artist. In my mind her work perfectly captures the human spirit, whether it be love, sadness or suffering and I…

Jenny Cottle In 1988 Nigel Harding wrote a children’s textbook, Wanted! New Managers for Planet Earth, now sadly now out of print, it began with an imaginary conversation between earth…

Dijanna Mulhearn Speed Dating You’ve taken a deep breath and decided to give speed dating a go. The first impression is all you have. Everything you wear says something about…