Being in community starts with simple invitations, a cup of tea, a request to borrow a household item, a shared understanding of a common space to play and meet others, an invitation to give voice …

If you’ve been following along for a while you might recall I’ve been searching for a word that might mean both big and small – both sizes happening simultaneously.  I have also been struggli…

Luminosity can be found in nature, at the bottom of pine trees in a little forest in Douglas Scrub, glow in the dark mushrooms appear in autumn. In the understory of rotting wood you can see an eer…

There is a well known Thai restaurant on Gouger Street in Adelaide called the Star of Siam. It opened in 1987 when there weren’t too many offerings from Asia apart from Chinese restaurants and earl…

Still searching for a word in any language that means big and small, and I wouldn’t mind one too that means both time and space, if you know please share your knowledge.  The stars hold big and sma…

Over the next 200 years, we can expect all of the Earth's glaciers to disappear -- unless we act now, says writer Andri Snær Magnason. Telling the story of the Okjökull glacier in Iceland, the first...

Arrived home on Friday night from the oldest part of the world, Ikara-Flinders Ranges, and before long they will have World Heritage Listing, so even more people will learn all about them.  De…

Young Welshman Alex, the in-house astrophysicist of Arkaroola, did his very best to blow our minds with information about time and space, light and lasers, huge telescope lens’ and the biggest infl…

It has been such a privilege to be on the road again travelling to far away places and connecting with pieces of my ancestral story.  Some of the locations I visited had been chosen by film-ma…

When the Vikings looking for land weren’t sure where to go they let out birds and logs of wood to help them find safe harbour and a place to settle, old techniques, very effective. It helped …

The one word of the Uni Verse could well be star. All life comes from that one word. Our common ancestry with the black sand beach on the south coast of Iceland to the red rock of Uluru and the blo…

Every single star the Democratic Party has got a chance to shine at this week’s convention in Chicago. All the usual suspects were bright, shiny and lighting up hearts and minds, and converti…

I have had a few times this week when I have been able to speak uninterrupted in front of audiences. I talked about lies, truth and trust in one, about the personal being political and the role of …