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Archive - May 2012

Role-modelling: the new paradigm

When your kids are little, the sort of role-modelling that’s top-of-mind is a set of basic-skills: courtesy and kindness. There are daily teachings and reminders, and it’s no small job. Guiding and shaping the way they...

Beer pressure

Drinking is indeed a social problem when many in society judge one as being a wowser for not drinking alcohol during a lunch or party. It is almost as if it is anti-social not to drink. How often have I been urged to...

The first meeting

The room smells of mould like damp towels. It’s a large room with chairs decked out in rows that arc around a table and chair in the middle at the front. The Chairperson sits here waiting for the lunchtime gathering...

What does it take to say no?

High School, Year 8, First Semester break. I was invited to a sleep over at my friend’s house down the street. To my surprise watching movies and painting nails was no longer considered sleep-over trendy. My friends had...

I kicked the bucket!

“Shit, I kicked the bucket”, I whispered to my giggling friends, and bloody loud it was too in the cavernous space of the winery in Margaret River in Western Australia. It was the tenth time I joined the...