A stranger. We sit on rocks on the beach in that strange part of night where the moon looks surreal and everything seems made of quicksilver. The air is crisp. It’s been raining and my nostrils are full of the smells of sand and ocean and freshness. My mind is full of everything and nothing.
Toby gently strums his guitar as he talks.
In keeping with my tradition (interrupted by travel in the last little while), I thought I’d post a blog on ANZAC Day.
This morning I went to the Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. A few days ago I asked a friend of mine if he wanted to come along – he responded that I “know his views on that” (patriotism and war). It gave me pause to think about why I go every year.
Today is Blog Action Day around the world and this year’s topic is Climate Change. Here is my participating post I guess the first thing I have to say is that I know some people won’t agree with this post, and most of those group will take that stance possibly because they have missed what [...]
This post may be a bit intense and upsetting for some people – it is a journal entry relating to the loss of a good friend recently.
I indulge in two types of creative activity aside from designing solutions to software problems 
: music – I play the mandolin and violin and sing a little; and I sketch. Both music and sketching are for my own amusement and I have no intention of that ever being otherwise (so before you tell me I’m crap, lol@you – I knew that already!). (continued)
I’ve fallen so far behind with posting about my trip, I feel like it is starting to interfere with what was my usual blogging routine before I went away. I start to want to blog about something and then think “ah, but I really am so far behind… the task seems enormous”. Well, to hell with linearity – in the words of my friend Scott, “linearity is for losers”. I’ll continue to blog about whatever I want, and will interweave my posts and memories and stories and rants from my trips. If you don’t like it, stay in the past with your “continuity” and your “order”. Or whatever.
So! Strap yourselves in for a mega-update-a-thon.
Before I left for South America, I remember wondering about the famed “travel bug” (the addiction to travel, not a stomach upset 
) and whether I would catch it. I wondered what it was about travelling that had so many addicted. Now I think there might be side to that story that may not be all that clear to those who haven’t done it…
Today is Blog Action Day around the world and this year’s topic is poverty. As I am currently in Bolivia I thought I’d post a little about the country, some statistics and a little about the current situation.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year, Blog Action Day is on Wednesday the 15th October and is on the topic [...]
More junk from the mind of a travel-maddened, exhausted, over-partied, distant chica wandering lost and in a daze through South America. I think I have hit a point where my thinking is becoming seriously affected by this experience and has yet to settle down. Its an odd experience. Anyway, as usual, an apology and a [...]
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