Try this when you next get into a lift with one other person. As you get in, make sure you stand as close as possible to the other person. What you’ll feel is extreme discomfit.

“I’ve got you under my skin” There is no spinning glass ball, there is no big band, Nelson Riddle isn’t conducting. “I’ve got you deep in the heart of me” I am on a tram on my way home after a long day at work. “Hold on, people, we’re rolling…” “And soon we’ll be rocking.” […]

I was listening to a podcast with designer Massimo Vignelli. He said the most interesting thing. He said when you are designing, always look at the essence of things, not at their appearance. Appearance is something that wanes, it’s like fashion. I am Italian born, grew up in Australia on a diet of American culture […]

When both your parents pass away within the same year, it makes you think. You start to wonder what it’s all about; what it means to be a parent.

After years of saying how the best way to experience nature was through a postcard, we finally did the “country” thing. It was a way to get away from the city on weekends.

In fact it’s one of the things that she’ll be remembered for by her grand children. They even gave her home a name. They called it “McNonna’s”.

Funny term “dead”. It’s very hard to say. I have had a lot of phone calls over the last week. I found it very hard to say “My mother’s dead”. It hurt and didn’t seem quite right. Too blunt and harsh. I heard my brother use “passed away”, and I have started using it. It […]

Somewhere in the world, a child was born; a father cried; a toddler took its first steps; a yapping dog bit the hand that had fed it; somebody made a chess move too quickly;