Singing during Covid

Gene Kelly sings, dances and playfully splashes in puddles in one of the most iconic scenes from the 1950s’ Hollywood musical Singing in the Rain. Despite being soaked to the skin, he remains optimistic while ignoring the drenching rain. We suspect that tomorrow he will wake up with a temperature, but in the meantime, he […]

The year of Marley Spoon

Here in Australia, as well as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic brought changes to our daily routines. As we struggled with the strangeness of it all, it was also a time for making creative changes to routines that now were anything but routine. How we shopped for food and dealt with meal making was […]

A major geographic

What is a “major geographic”? Is it an earthquake, a national emergency, a religious conversion or a cocktail? No, in fact, a major geographic is the noun that is used to describe the action taken by someone who decides to escape their problems by moving around the world. Within Australia itself, a major geographic can describe a […]