I started my reporting career 40 years ago at the Newcastle Herald and today I'm off to a very different kind of reporting event. Its called the Australian Seminar on Reporting and it has the theme of 'Moving Forward into a New Era - The Pace of Change is Accelerating’. Sounds pretty sexy, huh? But... Continue Reading →

I went to the 2025 NSW Sommelier’s Wine List of the Year awards last night. Ironically, Drinks Digest didn’t score an invite, I was attending for my day job. The 2025 awards were held at Strangers Dining Room in NSW Parliament House. NSW Parliament House is a funny old place, quite unexpectedly casual. They put... Continue Reading →

I dropped the youngest's old skipping uniforms off last night. I got a call asking if I could pass them on for kids to wear to the upcoming national skipping championships. I felt a bit sad as I folded them up and put them in the bag. It seemed like the final chapter of a... Continue Reading →

My newest resolution is to get outdoors more, so I put DD through his paces over the weekend. Well, to be fair, we put each other through our paces. The weekend started with dinner at Lovat in Newport. We joined a few of DD’s local gang for steaks and lots of dirty martinis. Well, DD... Continue Reading →

Cows have washed up on a NSW Mid North Coast beach after being swept down a creek and out to sea by floodwaters. Nearly 50,000 people have been left isolated by the weather and hundreds have needed to be rescued. Record flood levels were broken at Taree, where the Manning River surpassed the 1929 record... Continue Reading →

I am hopeful that I've turned a corner in my empty nester journey. It's been almost three days since I’ve shed a tear. I have decided getting my apartment in shape and sorting out all the cupboards will be my temporary purpose while I search for a more permanent one. The first step was building... Continue Reading →

The weather was looking pretty squally as I was getting ready for work yesterday. So I grabbed my all-weather Vivid Sydney crew jacket from the cupboard. I must have had a premonition, as I was asked late in the afternoon to attend a media call for a Vivid Sydney preview. It came in very handy... Continue Reading →

It was such a crazy weekend in Sydney weather wise - glorious blue sky one minute, cyclonic rain the next. Rain or shine, I crammed the days with the usual whirl of adventures. Things got off to a fun start with an invitation to help Ron Santiago de Cuba rum celebrate its Australian launch at... Continue Reading →

If you're around my age and you lost your job tomorrow, how hard would it be to find a new one? Gen Xers are having a career crisis - they have lots of skills, expertise and experience, but ageism is a bitch. News stories about Gen Xers and their career and sandwich generation woes are... Continue Reading →

I think the universe sent me a sign last night, but it was a bit cryptic. I’m still trying to decipher it. I was walking the dogs in my very urban neighbourhood and my inner monologue was muttering about the misery of being an empty nester. I ducked down a paved laneway opposite a local... Continue Reading →