I've been quite sure for awhile now that my phone is listening to me and reporting everything to Google and Facebook. Now I'm also thinking my laptop is reading my blog and reporting it to major news outlets. Last Sunday I wrote about the mystery of feeling so hot and...

January 26 is Australia Day. There is a lot of angst about this date because it represents the day in 1788 when Great Britain's flag was raised in Sydney Harbour, thereby paying no respect to the Indigenous people who had lived here for millennia. As a newcomer to...

To celebrate Hugh's birthday this week, we flew to Melbourne to watch tennis at the Australian Open. Unlike any time we'd watched it on TV, where it always seemed to be stifling hot, this year it was COLD! The daytime highs were 18-20C and the overnight lows were...