So anyway…

I’ve been practicing meditation as a means of stress management for a long time. In more recent times, I’ve used meditation as an active healing tool. Today I read A Guide to Handling Guilt and Self-Punishment and found it to be pretty amazing, so here’s the link. Go on. Heal yourself. It feels pretty good.

As I noted, I made a New Year’s resolution (okay, I actually decided it on Boxing Day, i.e., the day after Christmas) to be happy. I’m doing okay with it. It’s not as difficult as you might imagine… Even when I’m feeling irritable and cross and worried, I can reach into a place beyond or Continue reading →

Vegemite on toast as ART! (Well, it’s not like I’d eat the stuff… I know, it’s terribly unAustralian of me.)

A few months ago, as I’ve previously written, we had a hatched nest of baby spiders in our bedroom (just follow that link if you haven’t heard the story or want to refresh your memory, and also the followup post). In a nutshell, we caught them over a period of days (nights, really; they’re nocturnal) Continue reading →

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Tom Cruise. That being said, I’m not going to post links to his now-infamous Scientology videos (you can find them for yourself, I’m sure; they’re all over the web). I will, however post this hilarious parody video starring Jerry O’Connell. I never Continue reading →

Over at The Dilbert Blog, Scott Adams issued an interesting challenge. Describe yourself in one word. There was more to his post than that, which is why I linked it, but I was intrigued. Didn’t take me long to settle on one word that I think can describe me the most expressively: eccentric. Andrew thought Continue reading →