I posted a comment on Facebook about an encounter the previous day with a road jerk. For those of you who aren't my "friend" on that site, here's a bit of info: a driver was being a road-bully. He was doing his best to stop us passing him - speeding up, slowing down,...

Human beings seem to be hard-wired to need, to respond to and to let our lives be shaped by stories.  Right back in prehistoric times, we were painting scenes on walls and telling tales by the fire. Until the advent of writing materials, every people's group had a...

For the past few weeks I'v been on holiday. The Old Boy, the Wonder Dog and I, like to retreat to a small cabin in the south west of Victoria, in a little town that boasts one pub, one small general store, a school for about 20 kids and a few houses. Our cabin is...