Jody at Raising WEG has a fascinating post about boys and the toys they choose. She has much better comparison points than me (she has triplets – two girls and a boy), and has posted about her boy’s toy choices, and his peers’ reaction to them. One thing she saidContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Secrets of the Jury Room : Inside the Black Box of Criminal Justice in Australia by Malcolm Knox. Malcolm Knox is the SMH’s literary editor, and a few years ago got himself on a jury in a fairly serious criminal trial. This book is theContinue Reading
Our local issue is Graythwaite – a six acre estate in the middle of North Sydney currently used as a nursing home. There is a local campaign going on – posters everywhere, and stalls at all of the local markets. My four year old has been asking what it’s allContinue Reading
There has been a frenzy of comment in the US blogs I read about a recent article arguing that “Half the wealthiest, most-privileged, best-educated females in the country stay home with their babies rather than work in the market economy” Further research by US demographers (as opposed to anecdotally interviewingContinue Reading
There has been a huge amount of publicity of increasing proportions of children being overweight and obese. The studies often add that obesity is much more common in poorer children, for a variety of reasons (including access to exercise as well as healthy food). So I’ve been assuming that whereContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Better than Sex – How a whole generation got hooked on work, by Helen Trinca & Catherine Fox (who edit the Australian Financial Review‘s Boss magazine). Helen Trinca and Catherine Fox are journalists who write about the world of work very much from a managementContinue Reading
I was very excited this week when I logged on to the Sydney Water dam update – we’ve had the best week since last July! So this week, we had enough new water in the dams to cover us for six weeks of normal consumption. It’s still not enough, though.Continue Reading
I had a farewell discussion with someone at work today. He’s fifteen years older than me, a really nice guy, and I’ve worked hard to get him to take me seriously as a fellow professional, not a nice little girlie who is doing pretty well given her age and sex.Continue Reading
I am incapable of remembering mobile phone numbers the way everyone else does. I think I’m too governed by the way Sydney phone numbers used to be. In Sydney phone numbers used to be seven digits, by universal agreement expressed as xxx xxxx. So when mobile phone numbers came along,Continue Reading
This week’s book review is The Paradox of Choice : Why More Is Less – How the culture of abundance robs us of satisfaction by Barry Schwartz. This book’s main thesis is that too much choice is detrimental to our lives – it makes us unhappy, not to mention takingContinue Reading