What 20 Years of witnessing a stage 4 cancer survivor has taught us about life and friendship There are moments in life when your entire perspective on suffering, resilience, and wealth gets completely

Many years ago, I finally caved and bought a Nokia phone I didn't think I even needed because it came with a free discman. It had snake, and about 10 emojis from memory. You had to keep texts very short

No, there is no rest for wicked husbands. Evenly the wickedly good ones. Sorry, Hive men. I know you empathise with men forced to DIY for their wives. Rest assured, he wanted the window. First step was

What do humans need? Ask Becky Chambers in this beautiful little hope punk book, where we meet a non binary tea monk who meets a robot in the wilderness and muses upon what gives our lives meaning. I'm

Seeing that my husband was relaxing the other day, I found a job for him to do - create a breakfast bar overlooking the garden. I usually have a cuppa or my muesli standing up against the balcony rail,

What happens when an ideology tells women that significant parts of that natural expression are weaknesses, limitations, conditioning, or things they need to overcome? In order to understand what feminity

Big up to all my Hive friends who are original, thoughtful, and human a.f. I'm going to be unequivocal about this: If everyone uses Ai to write Hive content, Hive is no longer a platform I want to be on.

The good old AI question. When AI becomes so good that you can't detect it any longer, what will we be upvoting then? Just people? Their vision? Their opinions? Their contributions? Their goals? Their

For weeks now I've been feeling really depressed. It's not a usual state for me - I usually shake things off quickly. This time I've been as close to wanting antidepressants as anything, but as usual,

If there's any better way to wake up than a mate texting you and saying 'are you coming flying', I'd like to hear it. I've known this guy for 18 years and it's the first time I've been up - mainly as he

She sits on the bathtub edge, feet perched precariously on a time-slip soap-bubble. Comforting, the light-shallow breeze wafts in through the open door. Every ounce of her, inviting sin in. The promiscuity

On July 11 of this year I wrote a blog about a friend who had cancer. My 'friend' was about to undergo a procedure that was intended to kill a tumor on his adrenal gland. As some readers might have guessed,

My Old Barn Project was originally started back in 2008 and I was posting the photos on FLICKR, Facebook (which I no longer use, yuk!), and another site or two. None of those other sites provide what Hive

Even that syntagma. Age of AI. Bleeding awful, isn't it? An even more worrying aspect is the way many of us, if not all yet, have taken it in stride, and taken it for granted that the rise of AI is inevitable.

The old primary school sat half-swallowed by tea trees, the oval gone to spear grass and rabbit holes with no one to tend it. The groundsmen left it to ruin without an apology, but then, the virus moved

I loved this movie. It is one of four movies in the Quiet Place series. The other movies are A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II and A Quiet Place Part III. The last movie in the series, Part III, has

I finished Eva Horung's The Minstrels last night. It had potential, but I found it melodramatic and emotionally manipulative. Not my kind of book - it won't stay with me, and I'll forget I ever picked

Oh man it's been a great season for saffron milk cap mushrooms, common in pine forests round here. ON the way back from a trip to country Victoria we stopped past a reservoir and picked a metric ton of

Sometimes you tend to discover new things in stuff you thought you knew, only to realize it goes way deeper than you ever expected. For me that's the case with Nina Hagen these days. I've always liked

Morale has been at an all time low here on Hive lately and I realize when token prices and engagement are low it’s sometimes tough to muster enthusiasm. But recently I had a wake up call that had a way