Midlife Crisis? Or Cresting the Midlife Wave? By Renee McBryde
‘We cannot live the second half of our lives in the same way as we lived the first. Carl Jung wrote this sentence in his famous paper ‘The Stages of…
Happy birthday Memento! By Anne Howell
Anne Howell developed a taste for books and films about characters with amnesia ever since she woke in 1991 — in an odd, unnameable place peopled with strangers — to…
What a weekend of sport! By Peter Newlinds
The weekend that was ended at 1.30am on Monday morning. The four-part act of sporting theatre unfolded across various time slots and four different locations; in fact with the 1000…
Australia word drawn using shells on sand at the beach
Like our sovereignty, Australia Day needs sorting by Sean Doyle
Every year, the calls to shift Australia Day – ‘change the date’ – multiply, to purge it of the racist, colonial baggage of ‘Invasion Day’ The best option is 1…
Magic moments in the fifth Ashes in Hobart?
January 5 was the fortieth anniversary of the ‘Dyson catch’ as described in the opening passages of Around the Grounds. A moment in time I witnessed first-hand while I was…
Looking forward to Christmas …. and the cricket! By Peter Newlinds
The adage ‘like a kid on Christmas Eve’ evokes a feeling of wonder and excitement, a sort of innocent anticipation. Most of us hopefully still enjoy a pang or two…
WBBL as the Scorchers down the Strikers by Peter Newlinds
Photo: Courtesy Reuters At the end of a sorry and difficult week for the men’s game, WBBL 07 reached a fittingly dramatic conclusion on Saturday night when 15,000 fans colourfully…
A long hot summer is on the way… or is it? by Peter Newlinds
Right now is a brief and wonderful phase of the cricket season where the best is yet to come, there’s plenty already to reflect on and every performance in domestic…
Why Turning 50 is a Big Deal: In praise of being uncertain by Andrew Fuller
The famous psychologist Carl Jung once observed that more people enter therapy around the age of forty-nine than at any other age. My own clinical experience backs up this observation.The…
Borderline story by Sandie Jessamine
Sandie Jessamine takes us into her borderline story ‘I used to think escape from madness required outrunning pain; this was until I accepted that true healing involves stillness and allowing…