Boomers and their bags reveal gen gap.
Here is a light-bulb moment from baby boomer, Gilly Joschke, a teacher at Adelaide’s prestigious Seymour College. “I did an interesting activity with my year 8 students this week. I asked them to...
View ArticleBoomers are chameleons in societal change
No-one told me book clubs were so interesting, not so much because of the books under discussion, but by the real life circumstances of the women attending. When my friend Glenda asked me to be a...
View ArticlePrevention a Focus for New Cancer Centre
About half of all cancers are caused by lifestyle factors and behavioural change strategies could save lives, says South Australia’s Minister for Health and Ageing, John Hill. He was speaking at the...
View ArticleTutti Kids “beautiful” performers
It was a charming event entitled “Beautiful Me, Beautiful Us Caberet when Tutti Kids, children with intellectual disabilities performed at Novita Theatre, Regency Park recently. I had seen Hot...
View ArticleCREATIVITY CREATES SUCCESS AND MONEY AFTER RETIREMENT
They call him the stick dresser and her a soap maker, but Doug Storton and Kaye Quinn reflect how a growing number of people find artistic success once they retire. Doug’s shepherd crooks and Kaye’s...
View ArticlePowerful Message of Peace Within
It was eerie déjà vu and I could hardly believe the words my friend was uttering at the end of the telephone. She was describing a painting she had bought many years ago of a magnificent horse standing...
View ArticlePink heralds pretty Spring garden
My new garden is a picture of pink blooms in its first Spring. Pink roses flower prolifically, countless pink field carnations, chorus-like, nod in the wind and a border of pink daisies form a splash...
View ArticleSpring breaks through winter of grief
My springtime garden is a picture of blooming flowers and the sun shines warmly to welcome an idyllic day. I can appreciate such beauty now, but six months ago to this day, another Friday, my...
View ArticleScarlett’s Baptism Brings Family Joy
How strange that this morning I awake with a song in my head which is a popular wedding hymn. Its words “This is the day which the Lord Hath made’’ run through my mind and it strikes me that this day...
View ArticleOz film industry created our own heroes – Jack Thompson
In 40 years, the Australian film industry has grown up from infancy and ”given us a voice on screen” by telling our own stories with Aussie actors portraying familiar characters says veteran actor...
View ArticleCricket Champions at three score and 10
The recent Over 60s National Cricket Championships played in Adelaide last month revealed two local champions – Des Fuss (left from Moonta and wicketkeeper Michael Willson formerly of Kangaroo Island,...
View ArticleNew questions hover over Jacinta’s suicide
The tragedy of the thoughtless radio prank which led to the suicide of nurse Jacinta Sadanha is just awful. Greig and Christian when they apologised on television appeared crushed, tearful and full...
View ArticleGift-giving the spirit of Christmas
So this is Christmas. Trees with twinkling lights in so many windows, wreaths on doors, Father Christmases in every shopping centre and big red bows tied around street trees. Sometimes one spots a...
View ArticleDepardeau flees France
France’s favourite actor son, Gerard Depardeau has caused an outcry by renouncing his Frenchness and handing in his French passport because he is incensed at the socialist Hollande French Government...
View ArticleFamily Joy is the gift of Christmas
It is a pity Christmas comes only once a year because it brings such joy and happiness. Ours was a wonderful Christian family celebration beginning with the Christmas Eve children’s service at...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Carry On Into 2013
As you read this, it’s your first reason to celebrate the dawning of 2013 because despite all the doomy prophecies, the world did not end. And despite the war in Afghanistan, Middle Eastern strife,...
View ArticleFrench court rules thumbs down for wealth tax
In a surprising update on France’s tax hike for the ultra-rich, France’s highest court has thrown out the controversial plan to tax the wealthy at a rate of 75 per cent, saying it was unfair. In a...
View ArticleOf Cats, Frogs, Madmen and Shearers
One of the finer cultural moments of 2012 was a poetry event at my book club. We had been asked each to bring a piece of poetry to be read and discussed in some length. One of Australia’s outstanding...
View ArticleWeight weighs In Well for Longer Life
Oh what a gem of news which proclaims that a few extra kilos are worth their weight in a bid for a longer life. It applies to men and women who are slightly plump and not the obese, who face a raft of...
View ArticleNew Year’s Friends, Fireworks & Memories
Hoorah for January, the best month of the year. Only New Year heralds a respectable chance to wipe the slate clean and, armed with resolutions, to begin anew on this adventure called life. The best...
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