As the southern hemisphere winter changes to spring, the last few weeks have also seen a shift in our approach …

As the western world opens up for summer, Asia, Africa and the east coast of Australia are in the middle of another …

If you run a business, or work in one, you have two starts to a year: there is the one you celebrate with family …

As Victoria works through Lockdown 4.0 without its lead sponsor from last time (North Face), Singapore …

It’s vaccination season. Hidden amongst the celebratory news of multiple flavours of vaccines, countries fighting …

February is my favourite month. Not just because of the romance but because of a rodent.

Welcome to 2021. A world of wonder where the new Twitter office has become a touch more civil, Facebook has become more savage, squirrel fur hats are on the up, and orange hair is on the out. Face masks are still required in supermarkets…

While waiting for Trump to finally confirm his loser status last week we suffered a loss much closer to home – our twelve-year-old family dog, Dewey. He was a friend and a constant companion through the ups and downs…

Crisp, fall morning; Nirvana in the Discman; heading to an 8:30am Psych 101 course. Centre stage in a 600-seat auditorium stood professor Rory O’Day. Three mornings a week he stood like growling…

It’s nearly spring here in Victoria where the longer and lighter days give you more time to fixate on what might happen to you after mistakenly touching the Hello Fresh delivery without your safety mittens on…

Hello from the education state, the home education state that is. Victoria is discovering that having the kids round the de-facto boardroom means more colouring in and less concentration. Karen from the accounting team…

Bonjour from Lockdown 2.0! 2020 feels like the future showed up for dinner early while we were all still in the bathroom getting ready. From lockdowns to more locking up in ‘one’ China, from taking a knee…

Electrical tape. Hard wearing, utilitarian, the defining visual symbol of the COVID-19 crisis. It’s everywhere these days; hanging out with its mates ‘caution tape’ and ‘orange safety buntings’. It’s all the rage…

Does it ever come back? This week I watched Vela (a You Tube Vlog) starring a slightly subdued (possibly drugged) John John Florence, his little bro and a few mates…

How do we refrain from focussing too much on the here and now during times of crisis? For me, it’s about turning off the emotional monster that saw me nick Panadol from Costco.

Is this going to be the year of transmission? There is a great scene at the end of the film Contagion where we see the bat bite a piece of fruit…

Food is intrinsic to being human. Not just for our survival, but what, how and why we consume helps shape our identity.

Looking back on the year that was in brand, highlights two transformations: the reshaping of trust and the impact of technology…