This is my presentation at AARE 2016 at MCG. It was part of a Symposium made up of Margaret’s PhD students: Disruptive thinking through creative methods: Innovative research projects from the Space, Place, Body group Angela Foley: Intimate material: Artful beyond words in the ‘posts’ Sarah Crinall: What is (the) matter-with-data?: The creative practice of […] Read more…
Exploring death and bereavement customs from 4 different cultures was the theme for this year’s inaugural Dying To Know Day event on Monday 8th August at the Adelaide Cemeteries Authority. The room, usually reserved for funerals, was packed out at the invitation-only dinner event. The rows of seats were replaced with round tables dressed in […] Read more…
“Speaking about death won’t kill you just like speaking about sex won’t make you pregnant.” We are so disconnected from death in our secular Western culture. We don’t do death well. How do I know this? From experience. From a cultural point of view, I was totally unprepared for my son’s death 2.5 years ago. […] Read more…
Without fail, my partner always finds that prime parking place. What a coincidence! Don’t you hate that? Have you even gone to phone a friend to find your friend is phoning you? What a coincidence! Don’t you love that? Or it suddenly hits you that Jack The Ripper and Kermit The Frog share the same […] Read more…
Who has had little people, kids, in their lives in the last 27 years? Yes? So this character will be familiar to you then? Someone tell me who he is. Yes! – THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR from the 1987 classic children’s book of the same name by Eric Carle. I read this story to my […] Read more…
A Google search assures us that the oft cited phrase, off the cuff, means “without preparation, impromptu, ad lib.” At Toastmasters we call off the cuff speaking: Table Topics. People die a thousand deaths waiting for their turn; well I do. Improving at Table Topics; off the cuff speaking; is my challenge. Magic happens when a […] Read more…
My morning ritual worked its magic. Compared to this time 3 years ago I was cool, calm and collected rather than frantic, manic and in a panic! Up at 4:30am, move a bit, stretch a bit, lift a bit, eat a bit; out the door by 7:15am. We packed the car the night before leaving […] Read more…