The exhausted mother, glassily patting the back of her baby who has filled her ears with pained sobs from dusk to dawn. The frail old man, carefully folding his lottery ticket into his threadbare wallet as he heads home on the bus to dry crackers for tea. The...
Early this year, over one of our many coffee chats, I asked my father to tell me his top 5 life highlights and what made them stand out. He gave me a strange look and admitted he had never really thought of that before. He had lived a full life, but stopping and...
“He is dead – which is why he can’t come to the phone and talk to you. D-E-A-D, deceased, no longer living”. I exclaimed forcefully in the phone to the call centre operator. All I was trying to do was cancel dad’s TPG internet – and...
A few days ago, I shared a link on Facebook to one of my favourite modern artists – Jason Fitzgerald – and I had a few comments back from people – what do you see in his work? Jason is a client of mine, and I have to admit I am not usually a great...
I had an interesting conversation with my dad the other day – he is in his 80’s now. But when I asked him how old he felt inside he said, “I am not sure … about 30 maybe”. So I started to ask a whole pile of other people of all ages how...
The other evening, I was speaking at a meeting of 50 or so web designers and web developers in Brisbane. As I stood up and gazed around the darkened room, I saw only one or two people of my vintage in the crowd. The rest were bright-eyed, keen young designers, as yet...
