122 Women
My current research project is to find and document the stories of 122 women who lived and worked in the local Gippsland region in the state of Victoria during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of these women’s contributions have been undervalued or forgotten and only have merited a brief mention in books […]
The Madness of Social Media
If anyone has ever has tried to solve a technical glitch related to Facebook (Meta), Instagram or another social media platform, you will know that the process to solve a problem can be so difficult and time consuming that you will need to see a therapist for emotional distress. Working with social media often reminds […]
Call to arms
As an expatriate American and an Australian citizen, the experience of Anzac Day in Australia is filtered through my childhood memories of celebrations around the Fourth of July and Memorial Day in the United States. Memorial Day is the American national holiday that honours the men and women who died while in service of the […]
Attachment theory for beginners
We were off to a post lockdown party at a park in downtown Melbourne. I really didn’t know anyone except our hosts, and so, I took the initiative and introduced myself to a man who was sitting next me in a camp chair. I asked him what he did for a living, and he told me […]