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These are such post-Christian times that one wonders if many parents who name their baby boys Noah (just announced as the most popular name given...
Once upon a time I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not...
Canberrans, are you getting enough silence in your lives? Login or signup to continue reading My latest online newsletter from Nautilus, the...
As invited celebrities and potentates settled into their pews for last Saturdays service to mark the re-opening of Pariss restored/rebuilt Notre...
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars Login or signup to continue reading Any heart not strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of...
For those of us investigating ways in which to survive the coming Trump presidency (and more specifically the daily, disgust-stoking news reporting...
When the birds of the common koel species Eudynamys orientalis are not here with us in Canberra, are they perhaps on the moon? Login or signup to...
Australians all, how are we to explain the dismay, the horror that so many Australians are feeling and openly showing at the election of Donald...
Who is Saint Rita of Cascia and what is her special relevance to the Canberra of today, to the despairing Canberra Liberals and their despairing...
"In 1977 I shall be 142. I must begin to take on the dignities and gravities proper to that season of honourable senility which is on its way and...
The presence of King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra this week sent the mature-age mind foxtrotting back to 1983 when Charles visited...
The moon belongs to everyone Login or signup to continue reading The best things in life are free The stars belong to everyone They gleam there for...
All fun-loving, thrilled-by-politics Canberrans love the ways in which Canberra's thoroughfares are presently decorated by the portrait-corflutes...
News-addicted readers, lend me your ears! Give me your advice! Login or signup to continue reading If you're quite unable to ignore the 24/7...
Like pet owners everywhere I have been trying to shield my companion animals from the ongoing news coverage following Trump's allegations that bad...
Thinking readers, lend me your nimble and not-easily-boggled minds as I serve you two contrasting and newsworthy measurements of passages of Time....
Just like the flowers that bloom in the spring (tra la), the corflute portrait posters of candidates in next month's ACT election have suddenly...
With October 19's ACT election looming, I am marvelling that I know less about the personality of Canberra Liberals' leader Elizabeth Lee than I...
Hope is the thing with feathers Login or signup to continue reading That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops...
Kamala Harris, in recent days sweeping onward and upward at the Democrats' rapturous jamboree in Chicago, seems well qualified to become the first...
If everything you see and hear in the news media about the disgusting Donald Trump turns your stomach and makes you despair (this columnist's...
Some of the inspirational things the French have done to adorn and celebrate their city for these splendiferous Olympic Games should, surely, be...