Is the older me just a watered-down version of the younger me? There is something eternal in us all – a thing that doesn’t age or calcify

What started as an incredible stroke of luck quickly soured into a physical and sensory encumbrance

Just like the treatment I had at a wellness retreat, unblocking the pipes would reveal what my worst habits were – the things of me that had been hidden

The clock passed midnight as I lay awake, looking like a hostage. As a mouth breather, I longed to stop resembling a fairground clown

My new Mazda takes me back to the summer I turned 18 – doing laps of the Warrnambool main street, enclosed in a feeling of perfect happiness

How can there be real change in society when people don’t listen to each other or have an empathetic approach to other positions?

My bag is scanned and gets pulled off for checking. No!!! Why did I pack a can of cold brew coffee?

I almost bought a $15m mansion just to be polite

What if you have tested negative for Covid and are just a little poorly? Should you stay home too?

Travelling 3,000km to the top of Australia by bus, then going to the airport and flying back. It was a metaphor for existence

Sydney to Cairns takes 47 hours nonstop. A log cabin roadhouse outside Gympie provides a rare and welcome treat – actual rest

I had two weeks to get 3,500km up the east coast of Australia - but would I survive the first night?

All day in bed, I am texting others who are in bed, who are all texting others in bed – and we’re comparing

Days go by and no one comments on my post

Two weeks after I handed in my manuscript I feel like I am still in a twilight zone, not quite reintegrated with the world

After decades of lessons, could a test on quiet country roads pay off?

More was surplus, and so this woman gave away what she didn’t need. And giving made her happy

After-work drinks on Zoom are not the same as in the office or the pub. I can’t wait to reconnect

I resolve to step out of my echo chamber and listen to back-to-back Joe Rogan Experience podcast episodes on Spotify. Will he mess with my subconscious?

When the wave hit suddenly half the people I knew were sick with Covid – or were they?