Building a better life
The advise has been everywhere this year. You can’t ignore it. You can see it on the internet, in the newspaper, hear it on the radio, and watch it on the television. Everybody was saying the same thing: ignore the……
Category: Doing LIfe
Retiring right
The way Australians approach retirement planning is in desperate need of review. If you Google “Retirement in Australia”, the first page is filled with:- Advertisements for places to live in retirement, A Government site that talks about pensions and taxation,……
Growing Old Well – By Doctor Rod
For the 45th year reunion of my graduation from Medical School the psychiatrists were asked to form a panel and address the subject of “Are we happy yet? Staying serene into the seventies”. It was an honour for the psychiatrists……
Just get it tested
The Problem We Face. According to the Cancer Australia website, in 2019 nearly 20,000 Aussie blokes will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. That’s a lot of men. Just to get those figures into perspective, imagine driving to a place thats……
Colombia Chapter 4
Childhood within the indigenous communities of Colombia is not easy. Usually from 6 or 7 years of age children start to accompany their parents to work in the field, to cut wood, cultivate the land and care for animals —……
Living for a Cause
My Soccer Career I can remember when I was at high school I chose soccer one year. It wasn’t the best year I ever had. In fact, other than a few games for beginners, I mostly sat on the sidelines.……
Finding a New Dentist – by Bob the Dentist
Looking for a Dentist ? It can often be an anxious time when you move to a new area and are looking for a new doctor, dentist, hairdresser all those personal and health services you had in place and were……
What They Don’t Tell You About Retirement.
Retirement is Great – for a while. You can do what you like when you like without anybody telling you what to do and by what time to do it. You can choose to sleep in if you like. There……
Successful Retirement Step 1.
Retirement is the one time in our life when we are forced to decide what is important to us. When we worked, we managed to do things that at least someone in the universe thought was important. We either went……
Facing Reality
Marriages. I have married around 30 women in my time. That’s a lot of women for one bloke. And of those I’ve kept up with, most are happy with their husbands (who I also married at the time). You see……
Retiring right
The way Australians approach retirement planning is in desperate need of review. If you Google “Retirement in Australia”, the first page is filled with:- Advertisements for places to live in retirement, A Government site that talks about pensions and taxation,……
Growing Old Well – By Doctor Rod
For the 45th year reunion of my graduation from Medical School the psychiatrists were asked to form a panel and address the subject of “Are we happy yet? Staying serene into the seventies”. It was an honour for the psychiatrists……
Just get it tested
The Problem We Face. According to the Cancer Australia website, in 2019 nearly 20,000 Aussie blokes will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. That’s a lot of men. Just to get those figures into perspective, imagine driving to a place thats……
Colombia Chapter 4
Childhood within the indigenous communities of Colombia is not easy. Usually from 6 or 7 years of age children start to accompany their parents to work in the field, to cut wood, cultivate the land and care for animals —……
Living for a Cause
My Soccer Career I can remember when I was at high school I chose soccer one year. It wasn’t the best year I ever had. In fact, other than a few games for beginners, I mostly sat on the sidelines.……
Finding a New Dentist – by Bob the Dentist
Looking for a Dentist ? It can often be an anxious time when you move to a new area and are looking for a new doctor, dentist, hairdresser all those personal and health services you had in place and were……
What They Don’t Tell You About Retirement.
Retirement is Great – for a while. You can do what you like when you like without anybody telling you what to do and by what time to do it. You can choose to sleep in if you like. There……
Successful Retirement Step 1.
Retirement is the one time in our life when we are forced to decide what is important to us. When we worked, we managed to do things that at least someone in the universe thought was important. We either went……
Facing Reality
Marriages. I have married around 30 women in my time. That’s a lot of women for one bloke. And of those I’ve kept up with, most are happy with their husbands (who I also married at the time). You see……