Another trip, another flight, another night of packing. Welcome to my world!At least it's not an early flight. I hate those. I set the alarm and then wake up at intervals through the night - if I can sleep at…
Category: life
Flat out
Well, it's now a couple of days since the Australian election produced an unexpected result, and those who thought that Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was a sure bet - as Bill himself did - are coming to terms with the…
Politicians lying together
The editor of a major newspaper once told me, "All politicians lie. The question is why they are lying."I was reminded of this when I took a dip into the political section of Twitter yesterday, and spotted an ex-politician complaining…
An upset
Australia had a federal election yesterday. I wrote a blog post about it, focusing on the "democracy sausage" that voters expected at the polling booths, rather than speculating about the almost inevitable result.The actual result turned out to be a…
The snag in democracy
Federal election day in Australia. Once every three years - well, a little more often than that, due to the government's desire to keep House and Senate elections in step - we all head off to the polls.So that's a…
Eyes on the Overworld
There are the two views of looking at the cosmos I mentioned earlier. There is the view of Aristotle, that the physical world is all there is. Anything more complex or divine than what we can see and touch and…
The One thing
My adult life has been one of travel. I've been lucky enough to circle the globe many times, and to travel to Europe and America more times than I can count. I try to seek out sites of history, of…
I now pronounce you…
Meet me in St Louis, Louie; I'd been burned badly when we crossed the Mississippi, got to St Louis, checked into our hotel with a view of the Arch, and I called the place Saint Louie, as you know, a…
A nice little earner
In the #WritingCommunity, It is commonplace for writers to link to Amazon titles or author pages.If I wanted to link to my work of first time love, Coding by Candlelight, I might put in a URL like this: https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Candlelight-Britni-Pepper-ebook/dp/B07PWYTMQ3/ A…
More than two thousand tourist traps
Route 66 is 2 278 miles in Imperial measurement or 3 666 kilometres. Either way, it's a long road to drive in an afternoon.Not that you can actually drive it any more. I remember my first visit to the Smithsonian…
