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Insane, or just mad for life?

Posted: 12 Mar 10 | It never ceases to amaze a ski bum like me the jaw-dropping talents of people you meet on the slopes. |

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Posted: 11 Mar 10 | Even while more and more people are fleeing the office to work from home in their pyjamas, television programmers continue to assume that anyone at their place of abode between the hours of 9am and 3pm must be a fat housewife with bad skin contemplating her imminent death. |

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Flying a terminal complaint

Posted: 04 Mar 10 | Ever since they banned joke-telling at airports, I can't stop giggling in terminals. |

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Scripture for the cool dude

Posted: 02 Mar 10 | PlayStation came home from school last week and declared he was going to convert to Catholicism. |

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Deflated by a $7000 balloon

Posted: 25 Feb 10 | A sucker's born every minute, we like to say, smugly confident that the sucker wasn't us. |

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No beating world-class care

Posted: 23 Feb 10 | The team of doctors don their plastic aprons and nudge open the curtain. |

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Seeing new perspectives

Posted: 04 Feb 10 | Continuing to indulge in an inexplicable fascination with tall buildings, I recently hurtled to the top of Melbourne's Eureka Tower, the 300m-high residential building in the heart of the city's Southbank district. |

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Books, not bombs, will end terrorism

Posted: 22 Jan 10 | The war against terrorism can be won only with books, not bullets. |

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Value of family is relative

Posted: 14 Jan 10 | A series of fortuitous and entirely coincidental events late last year led my father to the discovery of a sister he'd never known. |

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Muddled by SMS speak

Posted: 12 Jan 10 | A wee article in last week's Illawarra Mercury (January 6) caught my eye. |

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Lessons from the noughties

Posted: 31 Dec 09 | It started with a bang and ended with a whimper. The decade cheekily known as the noughties is done and dusted, replaced by the far less fun-sounding "tens" (or more scarily, the "teens"). |

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Healthy habits for new year

Posted: 30 Dec 09 | In the lead-up to New Year's Eve, many of us will be thinking about new year resolutions. |

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Ghosts of credit cards past

Posted: 25 Dec 09 | 'Twas the day after Christmas and all through the house |

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Nativity numbness settles in

Posted: 22 Dec 09 | It gets worse every year. And every year I vow that next year it will be different. |

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No better place for cricket

Posted: 18 Dec 09 | Have you ever compiled a list of the 10 greatest days of your life? |

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In market for new dictionary

Posted: 17 Dec 09 | With thanks to plucky reader Maureen Stewart, the inspiration for this week's rant comes from that very special genre of writing called real estate advertising. |

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Mum's the word: I'm hitched

Posted: 15 Dec 09 | Two days ago I tied the knot, got hitched, took the plunge. |

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Pencil passion in your diary

Posted: 08 Dec 09 | Last week my husband woke up in a very cheery mood and asked me what we were doing that night. |

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Get back on clothes horse

Posted: 24 Nov 09 | I have never been a follower of fashion. Not that I haven't tried. When I was younger I did endeavour to buy clothes that reflected the era, that I thought were stylish and which I hoped made me look like I gave a damn. |

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High school horrors relived

Posted: 19 Nov 09 | I don't have fond memories of high school. |

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