Category: change

Week of 1 June 2026 A few years ago I read Sarah Wilson’s book on the climate catastrophe, This Wild and Precious Life, and I wrote a blog post about it at the start of 2021. I wrote about how every year, everyone kept wanting to chalk up the...

Week of 25 May 2026 This week was the inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival, a “five-day celebration of literature, story-telling and creating connection” here in Nipaluna/Hobart. It was presented by Island, the organisation behind the literary magazine of the same name. The festival had a range of events...

Week of 26 January 2026 Monday was a public holiday in Australia. It’s been a national public holiday since 1994. I’m grateful that my workplace recognises that this is a date that causes pain to many First Nations people and allows us to substitute this public holiday for another...

Week of 19 January 2026 I’ve been reading Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, a book I’ve written about at length on here. I bought this book when it was first published (I was going to write ‘last year’ but it was 2024), and...

Week of 5 January 2026 It came to my attention this week that my first post on this blog was on 5 January 2011, so this week was the 15th birthday of my blog! I research and write my posts myself. I do not use AI in my writing....

Week of 29 December 2025 This was a week of low expectations and not much going on, as we said farewell to another year. So this is a kind-of sort-of year in review post. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in...

Week of 15 December 2025 As we edge closer to the solstice, I feel unsettled, edgy, and things happen that throw me right out. And they aren’t, in the grand scheme of things, that bad. There’s a lot lot worse happening in the world. A lot. But I am...