We’re living longer Next month I turn 60. When I was a youngster, 60 was ‘very, very old’. Now that I’m knocking on that door, I’m not old at all. While I’m not as agile and physically able as I used to be, I’m the best I’ve ever been mentally, emotionally, and intellectually. As I […]
“May you live in interesting times” is an old Chinese curse. And so it is today – in the era of COVID – with change as the only constant. Like immigrants into a new time, there are no signposts pointing the way forward. There is no how-to instruction manual. There is a lack of precedent, […]
For the most part, we have accepted the need for lockdown and social distancing on face value and done what we were told to do. But now I think it’s time we had a serious Covid_fucking_19 reality check: Total cases (all Australian numbers) = 7,118. New cases in the past 24 hours = 9. Total […]