When I was still living in Australia, a friend of mine was doing a project for her marketing course and was interviewing arrivals at the Cairns airport in the morning, to ask them about their travel plans

De·​ci·​sion The act or process of deciding. Seems so simple. Yet, a lot of us seem to struggle with making decisions, especially when it will require self-change. Familiarity feels safe and the unknown

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

The economy on consumption with supply produced to meet demand. But I think we are heading into an increasingly precarious position because what is demanded and supplied is no longer as it was earlier

I had an interesting conversation about fairness, decisions, consequences and responsibility today, and realised that many people seem to have a conflict in them. Essentially, every action is going to

I read something that might be called interesting (or perhaps insane) today, where Trump is "promising" (his promises and deals are worthless) to give $5000 dollar handouts to "every American

I have been meaning to talk about this for ages already, but since I hadn't actually used the frontend myself, I held off. Today I popped my cherry and Scrobbled for the first time on scrobble.life, writing

An adaptation and retelling of a story thousands of years old filled with monsters, magic and heroes, stripped away for the modern audience

Last Calls If there was only one sunrise left, one sunset left to report, What would be the last act, the last word, the last thought? What would linger on after the darkness fell to ground, And where

A little over 20 years ago, Finland was the toast of the educational world, consistently topping the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing, where the proficiencies of 15 year olds

The oldest person in Australia recently died at the age of 112. She was born in 1914, before WWI even began. But in the story I was reading there were a couple paraphrased snippets from an interview she

Over the las almost two years, I have been testing a few different medications to manage my chronic stomach issues. However, none of them have worked as well as what I was on previously. The reason I was

While politicians themselves and their backers tend to be in the highest wealth percentages, it should be interesting to note that there has been an ongoing shift over the last few decades where they appeal

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

I did nothing today. Maybe that is not completely true, since I still managed 15,000 steps during my nothingness. But really, I didn't do much. Smallsteps went to an amusement park with friends and I was

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

One in Five. While there are slight fluctuations either side, that is the global estimate of those who are very or fairly lonely. Young people are more likely to be lonely than older people, and those

I always find having a bit of perspective useful. Getting a little distance to see the whole canvas before adding more paint, or putting complicated processes into a story that connects the dots. When

I oft wonder what kind of trauma I carry from childhood. As despite somewhat being okay now, I also know that in order to survive life to this point, I have had to push a lot of things to the side and

Words out of Silence Never silent always chattering, whispers in the ear I hear them so clearly, spill from somewhere inside Many voices of the past, and the words I fear to speak The person who I was,