Continuing with the theme of music that makes you laugh or smile I’ve decided to share one of my fondest memories. When my son was little his father and I would take turns singing him to sleep each night, not to mention at anytime during the day as music was something we all got a…
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Happy Birthday MJ My Sister, small red-haired and fierce If cross that gimlet stare will pierce The heart of any sentient being Will halt, confess and come clean. Her vibrant smile can cheer a room Her laugh will rival your favorite tune A Heart so huge in that small frame A spirit worthy of Aussie Fame…
ANZAC day and all its history brings us together each year on this day to give honor and respect to those who died so that we should live in a world of our choosing. To remember those who laid their lives on the line to defend our country and those who still do because they…
Image courtesy of Viral Protest for the Great Barrier Reef. This is what I want future generations to see, not in photographs or movies, not in books as part of history but as something we cherished and in turn taught them to cherish it also.
Writer Charlotte Brontë was born on this day, April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was supposedly the most outspoken and ambitious of the Brontës, which was unusual for a woman of her time and background. In fact Charlotte was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt…
On this day in 1912, Bram Stoker died at No. 26 St George’s Square, London. He was cremated, and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. Born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 8, 1847, Bram Stoker published his first literary work, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, a handbook…
Okay okay, after not sleeping and another round of stomach flu I am calling a surrender. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment for tomorrow and I think that I’ll take the rest of the day to curl up in a little ball and play least in sight. Sadly as much as…
On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. Considering the current state of affairs in regards to censorship and the suppression of civil liberties that is currently being played out on the Australian stage I thought it was fitting to acknowledge a man most consider…
The good news is that the Western Australian Senate elections were a win for the The Australian Greens and a step in the right direction of building a political power base strong and diverse enough to challenge the major parties at both a state and federal level. Christine Milne said that the campaign to keep…
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