“Eating is a spiritual practice, and if you do it right, it will boost your health and your mindfulness.” Vaḷḷi, a female meditation guru with…
I read an article once, by a man whose name I cannot remember, which attributed the differences between occidental and oriental cultures to the incidence…
I was prepared for one of them to die. Before I left the UK to go travelling, I made a list of family members I…
Bundarra is a tiny little village about an hour from Armidale, which is an hour and a half from Tamworth, or nearly three from Coffs…
On January 26, exhibitions are held throughout Australia’s campgrounds. The central themes of said exhibitions are that of patriotism and its associated behaviours. These grounds…
Because I cannot bear the thought of spending New Year’s alone, I get in a car with a friend and two others I’ve never met…
The first hint was Buienradar. Why would it ever be useful to have an app that shows you only the next two hours of precipitation…
It’s a well-worn archetype, that of the foreigner striding through busy city streets with a smartphone or an expensive-looking camera in hand, snapping a new…
Drifting in and out of sleep in Australian Eastern Standard time, the latest news alerts come in from the hot mess that is currently Brexit…
April 2007 In 1994 in Melbourne, Australia, my dad sat in peace. He had marched and fought, and now could return to the country he’d…
Picture Snake from The Simpsons posing like a French girl, looking alluring and sultry in an insta post captioned: “Wears nail polish but not condoms.”…
It’s Planet Earth, May 2019. The past five years have been the hottest on record. Cities worldwide, including Melbourne, are at threat of running out…
