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Any fleet-footed tour of Rome would be incomplete without some laps of Circus Maximus. The first time I travelled to Rome, it was one of m..

Despite a questionable approach to oral hygiene, I have a curious travel habit beyond Australian shores: I collect toothpaste.

Not exce..

Kings Park and McGillivray Oval made me some kind of strong. Not the strongest, but strong.

There are many kinds of strength. The work ..

After three weeks remaining silent as a treatment for vocal nodules, my wife, Fiona, has begun talking again.

All the same words, many ..

The first employer I worked with after University had a primary selection criteria that they labelled the “helicopter quality”. It’s the a..

Somewhere in the northeast quarter of Sicily, as we rounded a bend by a grand but incidental rail bridge, we spotted a roadside fruit and ..

Thirty years ago, on a public holiday near Wesley Boatshed on the South Perth foreshore, I went for a run. These were the days when the hi..

For the best part of a year, our family has planned a trip to Italy. More accurately, Fiona planned a trip to Italy for our family. It’s f..

There’s a note tucked in my bedside drawer. It’s a ‘sorry’ letter that Molly wrote me earlier this year. I keep spotting it there, but can..

In the mid-1600s, the clergy of St Paul’s Cathedral in Westminster, London approached Christopher Wren, a renowned architect of the day, t..