May 2012 Issue 122

A memory of spring now that winter is here…

I thought today to relax, here in this very [More...]

There’s a widely held opinion that brown eggs taste better than white. When certain members of my family decided to keep [More...]

Yesterday I was fine, or at least I think it was yesterday.  I'm a bit muddled at the moment.   I know I [More...]

I fly with Collette In her corporate jet To exotic places To the beach and the races I’m her suave gigolo [More...]

According to Snippets: A 'jiffy' is 1/100 of a second. Sorry to be pedantic, but this definition does not appear in the [More...]

A blackbird settles forcefully upon the back yard porch casting his eye on my meager menu just corn meal yet [More...]

For this edition we offer 10 reviews and we welcome back Heather! Peruse tales of the outback, Antarctica, Lake Eyre, travel, depopulating the [More...]

When does teasing in fun become teasing with malice, and when does teasing with malice become bullying?

Is it some [More...]

If I ruled the world I’d never get a good night’s sleep. I’m horrified at what humankind is doing to [More...]

I forget young people today march through life with as much opportunity to drift and dream as an infantry. Children have meetings [More...]

Back in 1969, we had just arrived as £10 Poms, all fresh and new, eager to explore our new home [More...]

 

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

When I was growing up, I often heard my parents discussing The War (WWII) as a violent drama which happened [More...]

Compiled by Kath Mounsey Thought for the Month: Poverty is a condition with but one advantage. It doesn't take much to [More...]

  After buying the book and a few postcards, we left Grand Pré to drive along the old highway #1 looking [More...]

When I was a kid in grade school, during World War II, the only way we could buy candy was [More...]

There are many positive aspects to growing older. People hold the door for you more often. Folks speak louder and [More...]

I was taking my morning caffeine fix at the local cafe and overheard two young mums at the table behind [More...]

For the past several years I have had two recurring dreams: one of being in danger of losing my job, [More...]

On Anzac Day, I attended the commemoration service of the ‘Coloured Diggers’ at the Cenotaph in Redfern Park and I [More...]

Ballads depicting the age-old story of boy meets, woos, wins and loses girl have a special place in our song [More...]

In keeping with his times, Samuel Pepys was frank about bodily functions. On 30 January 1660 he recorded in his [More...]

Masks plays important role in theater activity and have dual purpose of concealing one’s [More...]

I loved him but he left.

Sam was depressed. He’d gone to an auction with high hopes, his eye on a walnut writing box, but he’d [More...]

When I started cruising, part of the attraction was the ability to dock almost on the edge of the town [More...]

 I found Wikiquote recently. www.wikiquote.org  I also learned a 'wiki' is a web site that allows users to add and update [More...]

Inside the nursing home eyes roam freely via a window of memory. Wrinkles loosen into a smile and he remembers… a [More...]

'There’s a new baby sitter coming this evening.' Susan’s mother made this announcement at tea, and looked at her daughter [More...]

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best that from his vintage rolling time hath pressed, have drunk their [More...]

I glimpsed her in the crowd at the races. A pretty girl with an air of jaunty elegance, she held [More...]

I've been asked to write more about the railway line on the footpath and other childhood memories... The invisible railway line, [More...]

For this edition we offer 7 reviews. Peruse tales of Jung & Freud, China & Mao, India, Aboriginal art, recent history, discovery, [More...]

Ten years is a long time. It is a long time to remember. It is a [More...]

  On Sunday morning, the sky was clear as we and walked downstairs to enjoy an excellent, home-cooked breakfast. With time to [More...]

In trying to develop a more balanced outlook regarding matters of a spiritual nature, I’ve been broadening my reading and [More...]

I’ve always been fascinated by tales of near-death experiences.  Though I don’t believe in life-after-death, and I know it can [More...]

(I show some quotes from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations from MS Bookshelf, starting with Samuel Johnson's definition, 'Patriotism [More...]

'If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.' 

 

The first formal recognition of the cultural significance of Aboriginal heritage in NSW took place at Mutawintji north of Broken [More...]

‘Ted it’s gone!'

‘Er what’s gone?’ Ted momentarily lifted his eyes from the sports section of [More...]

  Compiled by Kath Mounsey

Thought for the Month: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. [More...]

Soon Britain will be going Olympics crazy. The Olympic torch will travel the length and breadth of our island home. When [More...]

When was the last time you kissed a frog, if ever? If you’ve actually had that experience it was probably [More...]

In Secrets of Art and Nature published in 1660, Dr Read writes: 'Since that there is nothing that addeth more to [More...]

Sam, the owner of Archie’s Antiques was proud of his latest acquisition, half a dozen stoneware ginger beer bottles. 'Lion [More...]

I first heard this song from the singing cousins, Albert and Alan Barraclough at a night of triumphal breast beating. [More...]

It was the promise of being able to carry a library of books with me wherever I go, that appealed [More...]

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a [More...]

Sitting in this shady place of transient dreamers; looking out over an undulating, verdant domain, where the smoke-haze stained new [More...]