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KAKADU-KAKADON’T
I was strumming Led Zeppelin’s epos, Stairway to Heaven, on my guitar as I casually looked up at the moonless starry sky. It was just past 19:00 and the Milky Way was as clear as a red wine stain on a...
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The Boat That Rocked
My left eye cracks open, allowing the stream of bright sunlight rip the iris a new one while my right eye slept in a bit more. The sun streamed down through the hatch out of a blue, cloudless sky. A...
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The Mackerel King
“Tell ya what,” I said munching on the grilled mackerel. “Food tastes so much better when you’ve caught it.” “And the fish is fresher because it’s straight from the water,” threw in Paul. “And it’s...
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Last Things to Do in Darwin
“We’re all going to stay at the hotel room,” announced Jill. It was Saturday night – our last night in Darwin and our last night in Australia. Bazza had organised a pub crawl in town and we were gonna...
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Uplifted by Same-Sex Marriage Vote Down Under
> Source: 30dB.com – Australia-and-Same%20Sex%20Marriage Over the past few months the government has conducted a non-binding postal survey among registered voters asking if they would favor amending...
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Paddling Into the Moment
David Packman goes stand-up paddleboarding to get outside his own head, but it took a chance encounter with a stranger to get him there. — There’s nothing quite like being out on the water on a...
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Escalating Drug Overdoses and Suicide Epidemic
The Sydney Morning Herald reported this morning: Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the government said in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of...
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The Man-Box is Alive and Well in Australia
A new Australian study has been released by the Jesuit Social Services’ “The Men’s Project”#1, modeled on research in the United States, United Kingdom and Mexico that was released by Promundo in...
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Manhood Men’s Gathering: Becoming a Better Man
In my quest to connect more deeply with my brothers, I recently attended “Manhood”, a men’s weekend on becoming a better man. I’ve never been to a men’s event before, but I’m for sure interested in...
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In Case of a Water Landing, Stay Away from the Snake
Recently, NBC News Travel reported that an 8″ Mandarin Rat Snake (which sounds a little harsh, to us) was escorted off of a Quantas Boeing 747 airliner at Sydney International Airport bound for Tokyo....
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Technology, a Mixed Blessing
— Since we, here at Life Explained, are sick of this awful winter, and the increasingly invasive, and oppressive Polar Vortex we are going to bring you news from the Southern Hemisphere, where...
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MBA
— Three letters that mean tens of thousands of dollars difference in pay per year over a BA in Business. With a better degree come better job offers, better pay, better perks, and more responsibility....
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It Could Be Worse but I Don’t Know How
— In a very disturbing, fast breaking development, it has come to my attention there has been a remarkable lack of spider related news on the blog recently. Certainly not because spiders have not been...
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The Family Tree
— Today I’m a bit of an emotional wreck, I sit in my backyard, commiserating with my beautiful magnolia tree, deeply rooted in the western corner. This is the space I return to, time after time, to...
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Making Room for the Unexpected
— Sometimes you just go for it, because if you let fear determine your ability to live fully, you’re screwed. “We must risk delight, we must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless...
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Dad Creates Australian Green Song to Bring Awareness to #ClimateChange
Hello, My daughter Tina was born on the 1st of March 2019. It’s only by getting more green representatives elected to all levels of government that our children have a chance of seeing what we still...
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Very Heavy Rain Bouts Are on the Way
— LONDON, 19 June, 2019 – Canadian scientists have examined an exhaustive collection of rain records for the past 50 years to confirm the fears of climate scientists: bouts of very heavy rain are on...
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Alien Seaweed Arrives in Antartica
— LONDON, 19 July, 2018 – A foreign invader, a species of alien seaweed, has managed to cross the oceans to reach the frozen Antarctic shores. So scientists may have to give up a cherished belief: that...
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Hopes Rise for Some Coral Survival
— LONDON, 25 April, 2018 – Researchers have raised hopes that limited coral survival may be possible, allowing one of the world’s best-known reefs to survive a little longer. Although corals are highly...
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I’ve Been Travelling the World for Exactly One Year with My Wife and 2-Year Old
“We could go to Australia…” “What the hell is in Australia?!” It was May of 2018. And for 6 months, my wife and I had been planning a month-long trip to Kauai, Hawaii. However, one week before we were...
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