Towards the end of our conversation, I pull my glasses down from the top of my head. They’ve been sitting on recently washed hair. So, through wet, fogged up lenses, I make out the name, Giovanna. Giovanna and I have just shared a conversation that you don’t get the chance to have when you are taking…
Details“Mum, some people are really lonely,” said the Wolf of Bell Street. “This lady I just met, I’m the first person she has spoken to today. You know the great thing about getting your quota early, is you can just chat with the person. I knew she didn’t want to buy solar panels, so I…
DetailsIt is April 2005 – the first time I became aware of the remarkable Celia Lashlie. I reckon most of the other 959 delegates at the Working with Boys, Building Fine Men conference were encountering her for the first time too. This unassuming lady walked to the middle of the stage, in Jeff’s Shed (Melbourne’s…
DetailsThis blog is over five years old now and I reckon if you do something for the second time, it’s a tradition. So on that basis, it is a tradition to offer you a reflection from the year just past that describes a moment of realisation that something has changed, you’ve entered a new stage.…
DetailsEarlier this year, on a crisp September evening, Amber my 21 year old daughter and I were off to the movies in town. We had bought tickets to a Melbourne première of a special documentary film. Amber is a budding doco maker herself, so it was a great thing to share as father and daughter.…
DetailsIn putting together a presentation called Surviving the Ride on the Adolescent Rollercoaster, I invited mums and dads who have done a Time & Space program to come along to a preview of the talk. It was Melbourne based and as the programs are offered around Australia (and indeed the world now – with sessions…
DetailsIt happens in schools sometimes. Decisions get made from high up. Year 7 White, Year 7 Red, Year 7 Blue, Year 7 Gold and Year 7 Green were all meant to get their year level camp in 1979, my first year of high school. Someone decided that for that year it wasn’t happening. The camp…
Details… in a world that demands flexibility, lauds the multi-tasker and pronounces that today’s 15-year-old will have about 20 different jobs throughout their career… it isn’t difficult to build the argument against the specialist. You can see how the person who does one thing well could be dismissed as unsuitably equipped to make their way…
DetailsIt has been a big week for Gabi. On Tuesday night Gabi was a participant at the Mother and Son session at her son’s school, Saint Ignatius College in Drysdale, a 20 minute drive through Geelong. Two nights later she fronted up and was a team member at the subsequent Mother and Daughter night. At…
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