Yesterday at Christmas dinner, my dad gave me a copy of the speech he made at my wedding. Lots of people have told me since we got married that dad’s speech was one of the best they’d ever heard. Unfortunately, because the day was a bit of a blur, I don’t remember much of what [...]

While cleaning out our study yesterday, I started to get a bit nostalgic.
Our study is where we keep things that don’t really have a home in other parts of the house – dairies, notebooks, old cards and letters, sermon outlines, etc. It made me realise that Sam and I have hardly any photos of our [...]

I read this article on smh.com today about a guy who has set himself a challenge to live with only 100 things next year. From his website:
The 100 Thing Challenge is a personal project, a way for me to fight consumerism. What’s behind it? My belief that material possessions can be good when they serve [...]

College has been on holidays now for a few weeks, and I’ve realised that I haven’t posted once!
I’ve been working almost full time these holidays, which has been strangely refreshing. I’ve got a gig behind the machine at Pablo and Rusty’s Olympic Park espresso bar – which has been a real treat. It means working [...]

Child psychologist Gregory Ramey says buying children lots of toys at Christmas may not be the best thing for them. an excerpt from the SMH story which I found interesting:
Here’s what will happen in many families. Children will develop elaborate lists of toys they niether need nor will use beyond a few days. Parents will go further [...]

Miranda Devine weighs in on the Rudd Government’s cash bonus solution to the global financial crisis. I’m no economist, but even I can see that she’s no economist either. Still, she raises some good points.

This ad for Dare Iced Coffee is really funny.

I felt I had to add this, in case everyone took my last tongue-in-cheek post too seriously!
Anglicare is running a Toys ‘n Tucker appeal this Christmas, so don’t forget to give generously to those in need this year. Someone told me last year the easiest way to do it was to just double up when you go [...]

Christmas has come early this year for Australians, with a $10.4 billion cash injection into the economy – $8.7 billion of which will take the form of direct payments to families and pensioners. The Federal Government estimates that Australians will spend $7 out of every $10 given, the effect being a 0.1% growth to the economy [...]

Did anyone watch the doco on Britney Spears last night on Channel 10? what did you think?
I thought she was pretty cool and I felt really sad for her, especially when she described her life as one big groundhog day, until Sam pointed out that the whole project was probably a big PR exercise for her new album Circus. Hmm.
I [...]