I’m in Mt Gambier. I suspect that 99% of you don’t know where in the world Mt Gambier is, I didn’t until I looked it up on Google Maps a few days ago. I’ve flown down from Adelaide for the day to teach the first year nursing students about the skeletal system, part of my [...]
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All the kids want to be big city kids
Sydney really is the crown jewel of Australia – a stunning, cosmopolitan city abuzz with activity. It is alive, pulsing, racing with activity. It is gaudy in it’s beauty – almost unfair that one city has so much glamour. From the moment we stepped off the plane, our mouths were gaping in awe at one [...]
So in the end I’d like to say, that I’m a very thankful man
I grew up with distant Grandparents. Not emotionally – they were wonderful when we had a chance to see them – but physically. Our family was nomadic for much of the 70’s, and our wanderings took us far from my parents’ parents. What this meant is that my sister and I saw our grandparents a couple [...]
You’re either a Yankee or a moron
As promised, guest post is up at Rassles. Phew, that’s me done for the day. Go over and check it out.
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Covington cemetery from the very talented Chad Purser.
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Mercy’s eyes are blue when she places them in front of you
I can’t really do a travelogue post about our just ended week away on Kangaroo Island. My brain doesn’t work in that linear, Monday we did this, Tuesday we did that. Added to that, our particular holiday was one of isolation from the information world and one of the advantages of unplugging is that the [...]
Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
We’re back and as I learned on our last holiday, traveling with an eighteen month old boy is not relaxing.
But it is fun.
After a long day to get home, I need a good night’s sleep. But here are a bunch of photos to tide you over.
Many thanks to Agnes, Rassles and Mickey for holding down [...]
America’s just a giant theme park. Put on them mouse ears and get in line.
A Free Family’s vacation continues and so do the guest posts. Today, I’ve got the pleasure of welcoming Mickey from The Prettiest Denny’s Waitress aboard. Mickey’s got the uncanny knack of making my laugh my ass off on a regular basis, so I couldn’t think of anyone I’d rather have captain the ship for a [...]
Le Bronx
A lot of you are probably already familiar with Rassles from Sometimes I Make Lists as we seem to lurk around the same cyber neighborhoods, but I’m a recent convert. Rassles signed on to the interview project I was running and made me a permanent fan with this post about a trip to the Creation [...]
These cities blur before me, a swirl of colors leaned against the sky
We are off in a matter of hours and it could not have come at a better time. I am flat wore out – work, home, working at home – done with it all. We’ve rented a beach house at Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island. Apparently it is one of the nicest beaches in Australia, [...]
I’ve always kept a unicorn and I sometimes sing in tune
OK, first off we are not on fire. Thanks for all the e-mails and comments, but the fires that you’ve seen in the news are in Victoria and we’re in South Australia. For American readers, that’s about the distance between Florida and Texas. Frequent commenter and occasional guest poster Jamie asked why so many people [...]
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